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Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink commemorated
"We are here today with our grief and honor. We are here today for
justice and righteousness," his wife, Rakel Dink told the crowd.
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World Bulletin / News Desk
11:48, 20 January 2013 Sunday
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was commemorated on Saturday on
the 6th anniversary of his murder.
A large crowd attended a ceremony held outside the offices of his Agos
weekly in Istanbul, carrying banners that read "We are all Hrant, we
are all Armenians" and laying carnations and lighting candles at the
very spot Dink was shot dead on January 19, 2007.
"We are here today with our grief and honor. We are here today for
justice and righteousness," his wife, Rakel Dink told the crowd.
American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky also attended the commemoration.
Chomsky was in Turkey to participate in "the 2013 Hrant Dink Human
Rights and Freedom of Expression" conference hosted by Istanbul's
Bogazici University.
A juvenile court in Istanbul sentenced in July 2011 the gunman in
Dink's murder, Ogun Samast, to nearly 23 years in prison.
A separate Istanbul court sentenced Yasin Hayal, another suspect in
the slaying, to life in prison for instigating the murder but it
stopped short of convicting him on the charges of acting under orders
from a wider criminal network which had been suspected of involving
high level state officials, police and military officers.
The court acquitted Erhan Tuncel, a second suspected instigator, of
charges of being involved in the suspected criminal network.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled in September 2010 that Turkey
had failed to protect Dink's right to life.
Last week a chief prosecutor asked for the annulment of the Dink
verdict arguing that the murder involved "an organized attempt."
"The murder was not just an ordinary killing of a person. The act had
the intention to destroy the unity of the Turkish state and create
chaos in the society. Dink's murder was an organized assassination,"
the chief prosecutor from the Turkish Court of Appeals, said in a
petition for re-trial of the suspects.
"We are here today with our grief and honor. We are here today for
justice and righteousness," his wife, Rakel Dink told the crowd.
http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=102036
World Bulletin / News Desk
11:48, 20 January 2013 Sunday
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was commemorated on Saturday on
the 6th anniversary of his murder.
A large crowd attended a ceremony held outside the offices of his Agos
weekly in Istanbul, carrying banners that read "We are all Hrant, we
are all Armenians" and laying carnations and lighting candles at the
very spot Dink was shot dead on January 19, 2007.
"We are here today with our grief and honor. We are here today for
justice and righteousness," his wife, Rakel Dink told the crowd.
American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky also attended the commemoration.
Chomsky was in Turkey to participate in "the 2013 Hrant Dink Human
Rights and Freedom of Expression" conference hosted by Istanbul's
Bogazici University.
A juvenile court in Istanbul sentenced in July 2011 the gunman in
Dink's murder, Ogun Samast, to nearly 23 years in prison.
A separate Istanbul court sentenced Yasin Hayal, another suspect in
the slaying, to life in prison for instigating the murder but it
stopped short of convicting him on the charges of acting under orders
from a wider criminal network which had been suspected of involving
high level state officials, police and military officers.
The court acquitted Erhan Tuncel, a second suspected instigator, of
charges of being involved in the suspected criminal network.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled in September 2010 that Turkey
had failed to protect Dink's right to life.
Last week a chief prosecutor asked for the annulment of the Dink
verdict arguing that the murder involved "an organized attempt."
"The murder was not just an ordinary killing of a person. The act had
the intention to destroy the unity of the Turkish state and create
chaos in the society. Dink's murder was an organized assassination,"
the chief prosecutor from the Turkish Court of Appeals, said in a
petition for re-trial of the suspects.