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POLICEMAN WHO POSED WITH TURKISH-ARMENIAN JOURNALIST'S KILLER PROMOTED
Hurriyet Daily News
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/policeman-who-posed-with-turkish-armenian-journalists-killer-promoted.aspx?pageID=238&nID=16337&NewsCatID=341
March 19 2012
Turkey
A police officer that was photographed posing with Hrant Dink murderer
Ogün Samast behind a Turkish flag immediately after the assassination
has been promoted, daily Radikal reported today.
Yakup Kurtaran, who was a fourth-class police officer in the Black Sea
province of Samsun at the time of the murder, has been appointed as
the public security deputy manager in the eastern province of Malatya.
The controversial photo was taken on Jan. 20, 2007, after Samast was
detained and taken to the anti-terror office in Samsun.
Kurtaran and other officers were suspended after the photo was
revealed; initially, Kurtaran was docked one day~Rs pay for his role
in the photo, but the penalty was later rescinded by a Samsun court.
Authorities launched an investigation into the unidentified people
who leaked the photo on charges of "breaching an investigation's
secrecy by featuring photos and videos in the visual and print media."
Samast was sentenced to over 22 years in prison last year for the Jan.
19, 2007, murder of Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist.
From: A. Papazian
Hurriyet Daily News
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/policeman-who-posed-with-turkish-armenian-journalists-killer-promoted.aspx?pageID=238&nID=16337&NewsCatID=341
March 19 2012
Turkey
A police officer that was photographed posing with Hrant Dink murderer
Ogün Samast behind a Turkish flag immediately after the assassination
has been promoted, daily Radikal reported today.
Yakup Kurtaran, who was a fourth-class police officer in the Black Sea
province of Samsun at the time of the murder, has been appointed as
the public security deputy manager in the eastern province of Malatya.
The controversial photo was taken on Jan. 20, 2007, after Samast was
detained and taken to the anti-terror office in Samsun.
Kurtaran and other officers were suspended after the photo was
revealed; initially, Kurtaran was docked one day~Rs pay for his role
in the photo, but the penalty was later rescinded by a Samsun court.
Authorities launched an investigation into the unidentified people
who leaked the photo on charges of "breaching an investigation's
secrecy by featuring photos and videos in the visual and print media."
Samast was sentenced to over 22 years in prison last year for the Jan.
19, 2007, murder of Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist.
From: A. Papazian