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Dink murder was an organized crime, not an individual action, Turkish
high court rules
13:04 15.05.2013
Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals has overturned previous rulings
acquitting the Hrant Dink murder convicts of connections to a criminal
organization, saying the murder was committed by an armed crime gang,
Hurriyet Daily News reports.
In the ruling announced today, the court approved the sentences given
to suspects but overturned the decision that acquitted them of crime
gang connections.
The previous ruling, which claimed that there was no crime gang
connection in the murder of Dink, had been highly controversial,
causing a stir in public debate.
The suspects will now be on trial again in the Istanbul court that
gave the initial rulings.
Dink, an Armenian-Turkish journalist, was assassinated in Istanbul in
January 2007 by Ogün Samast, a 17-year old Turkish nationalist, in
front of the offices of Agos, the weekly for which he was the
editor-in-chief.
After two years of proceedings Samast was convicted on July 25, 2011,
of premeditated murder and illegal possession of a firearm by
Istanbul's Juvenile Court for Serious Crimes and sentenced to 22 years
and 10 months. Another suspect, Yasin Hayal, was convicted of ordering
the murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Following a five-year trial, the court had ruled on Jan. 17, 2012,
that it saw no `deep state' role in the plotting of the assassination,
despite serious claims that a number of civil servants were
`indirectly' involved. The ruling was overturned a year later by the
Supreme Court of Appeals, which led to prosecutors restarting their
probe into the murder.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/05/15/dink-murder-was-an-organized-crime-not-an-individual-action-turkish-high-court-rules/
high court rules
13:04 15.05.2013
Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals has overturned previous rulings
acquitting the Hrant Dink murder convicts of connections to a criminal
organization, saying the murder was committed by an armed crime gang,
Hurriyet Daily News reports.
In the ruling announced today, the court approved the sentences given
to suspects but overturned the decision that acquitted them of crime
gang connections.
The previous ruling, which claimed that there was no crime gang
connection in the murder of Dink, had been highly controversial,
causing a stir in public debate.
The suspects will now be on trial again in the Istanbul court that
gave the initial rulings.
Dink, an Armenian-Turkish journalist, was assassinated in Istanbul in
January 2007 by Ogün Samast, a 17-year old Turkish nationalist, in
front of the offices of Agos, the weekly for which he was the
editor-in-chief.
After two years of proceedings Samast was convicted on July 25, 2011,
of premeditated murder and illegal possession of a firearm by
Istanbul's Juvenile Court for Serious Crimes and sentenced to 22 years
and 10 months. Another suspect, Yasin Hayal, was convicted of ordering
the murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Following a five-year trial, the court had ruled on Jan. 17, 2012,
that it saw no `deep state' role in the plotting of the assassination,
despite serious claims that a number of civil servants were
`indirectly' involved. The ruling was overturned a year later by the
Supreme Court of Appeals, which led to prosecutors restarting their
probe into the murder.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/05/15/dink-murder-was-an-organized-crime-not-an-individual-action-turkish-high-court-rules/