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MAIN OPPOSITION BLAMES GOVERNMENT FOR CONTROVERSIAL DINK VERDICT
Today's Zaman
Jan 19 2012
Turkey
Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal
Kılıcdaroglu has leveled criticism at the ruling Justice and
Development Party (AK Party) for the controversial verdict a Turkish
court delivered for the 2007 killing of prominent Turkish-Armenian
journalist Hrant Dink.
A man was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday in the Dink case in
a verdict that drew criticism from human rights groups for failing
to explore the alleged complicity of state officials. Editor of
the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos and Turkey's best-known
Armenian voice, Dink was shot in broad daylight in a busy İstanbul
street as he left his office.
The judge at an İstanbul court sentenced Yasin Hayal to life
imprisonment and acquitted 19 defendants of charges of being part of
a terrorist group. A juvenile court sentenced Dink's assassin, Ogun
Samast, to 22 years, 10 months in jail last July. He was 17 when he
committed the murder.
Kılıcdaroglu said in his Twitter feed on Wednesday that there are
those who define students demanding free education as members of
a criminal organization, but don't consider Dink's murder the work
of an organized criminal effort. "This is the AK Party's justice,"
Kılıcdaroglu added in a veiled statement meant to suggest the
government played a role in the court's decision.
From: A. Papazian
Today's Zaman
Jan 19 2012
Turkey
Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal
Kılıcdaroglu has leveled criticism at the ruling Justice and
Development Party (AK Party) for the controversial verdict a Turkish
court delivered for the 2007 killing of prominent Turkish-Armenian
journalist Hrant Dink.
A man was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday in the Dink case in
a verdict that drew criticism from human rights groups for failing
to explore the alleged complicity of state officials. Editor of
the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos and Turkey's best-known
Armenian voice, Dink was shot in broad daylight in a busy İstanbul
street as he left his office.
The judge at an İstanbul court sentenced Yasin Hayal to life
imprisonment and acquitted 19 defendants of charges of being part of
a terrorist group. A juvenile court sentenced Dink's assassin, Ogun
Samast, to 22 years, 10 months in jail last July. He was 17 when he
committed the murder.
Kılıcdaroglu said in his Twitter feed on Wednesday that there are
those who define students demanding free education as members of
a criminal organization, but don't consider Dink's murder the work
of an organized criminal effort. "This is the AK Party's justice,"
Kılıcdaroglu added in a veiled statement meant to suggest the
government played a role in the court's decision.
From: A. Papazian