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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.

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