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TURKISH-ARMENIANS MARCH TO REMEMBER SLAIN JOURNALIST
Glendale News Press
http://www.glendalenewspress.com/news/tn-818--0119-turkisharmenian-march-in-protest-over-verdicts-in-hrant-dinks-murder,0,7373890.story
Jan 19 2012
CA
An estimated 20,000 people have marched in Istanbul to mark five years
since the murder of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink,
the BBC reported.
Some protesters were angry over verdicts delivered this week in
the latest trial of people linked to his killing, according to the
newspaper. Three suspects were jailed but allegations were eventually
dropped.
Dink's actual killer, Ogun Samast, was jailed earlier for 22 years.
The journalist had angered Turkish nationalists by describing the
mass killing of Armenians a century ago as genocide, and was fatally
shot outside the Istanbul offices of his Turkish-Armenian newspaper.
On Tuesday, a judge sentenced one man to life imprisonment for
incitement to murder Dink, and two others were given 12 years in
prison.
However, all three men, along with 16 other defendants, were acquitted
of charges that they were members of the criminal organization link
to Dink's murder.
The prosecutor said he would appeal the judge's decision, and
emphasized there was sufficient evidence to support that murder had
premeditated.
Between 1915 and 1923, 1.5 million Armenians died at the hands of
the Ottoman Empire. Turkey disputes the genocide label, saying the
deaths were caused by civil war and other factors.
Glendale News Press
http://www.glendalenewspress.com/news/tn-818--0119-turkisharmenian-march-in-protest-over-verdicts-in-hrant-dinks-murder,0,7373890.story
Jan 19 2012
CA
An estimated 20,000 people have marched in Istanbul to mark five years
since the murder of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink,
the BBC reported.
Some protesters were angry over verdicts delivered this week in
the latest trial of people linked to his killing, according to the
newspaper. Three suspects were jailed but allegations were eventually
dropped.
Dink's actual killer, Ogun Samast, was jailed earlier for 22 years.
The journalist had angered Turkish nationalists by describing the
mass killing of Armenians a century ago as genocide, and was fatally
shot outside the Istanbul offices of his Turkish-Armenian newspaper.
On Tuesday, a judge sentenced one man to life imprisonment for
incitement to murder Dink, and two others were given 12 years in
prison.
However, all three men, along with 16 other defendants, were acquitted
of charges that they were members of the criminal organization link
to Dink's murder.
The prosecutor said he would appeal the judge's decision, and
emphasized there was sufficient evidence to support that murder had
premeditated.
Between 1915 and 1923, 1.5 million Armenians died at the hands of
the Ottoman Empire. Turkey disputes the genocide label, saying the
deaths were caused by civil war and other factors.