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NEW DINK TRIAL TO BEGIN AFTER COURT OF APPEALS RULING
Today's Zaman, Turkey
Sept 16 2013
16 September 2013 /TODAY'S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
Today, the İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court will begin reviewing
a trial into the 2007 killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant
Dink after a decision by the Supreme Court of Appeals overturned the
İstanbul court's first ruling on the murder.
Dink, the late editor-in-chief of the Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos,
was shot dead on Jan. 19, 2007, by ultranationalist teenager Ogun
Samast outside the newspaper's offices in İstanbul in broad daylight.
Samast, tried in a juvenile court because he was a minor at the time
of the crime, was sentenced to nearly 23 years in prison. On Jan. 17,
2012, the İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court gave another suspect in
the case, Yasin Hayal, a life sentence for inciting Samast to commit
murder. Erhan Tuncel, who worked as an informant for the Trabzon
Police Department, was found not guilty of the murder and acquitted.
The prosecutor of the first trial said that the murder was planned
and carried out by the Ergenekon terrorist organization, but the court
denied the existence of organized criminal activity in the murder.
The prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Appeals later said that there
was a terrorist organization involved and that the state should
investigate it.
The 9th Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals in May ruled that there
was an organization involved, but said that it was a simple crime ring,
effectively denying that Ergenekon played any role in the murder.
Dink's lawyers had submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of
Appeals, arguing that the lower court's ruling violated the TCK by
acknowledging the existence of a criminal organization but declining
to investigate it, and that the court ignored evidence of a terrorist
organization.
As the verdict of the lower court was met with outrage by civil
society groups, politicians and others, tens of thousands of people
marched in protest in İstanbul.
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-326528-new-dink-trial-to-begin-after-court-of-appeals-ruling.html
Today's Zaman, Turkey
Sept 16 2013
16 September 2013 /TODAY'S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
Today, the İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court will begin reviewing
a trial into the 2007 killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant
Dink after a decision by the Supreme Court of Appeals overturned the
İstanbul court's first ruling on the murder.
Dink, the late editor-in-chief of the Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos,
was shot dead on Jan. 19, 2007, by ultranationalist teenager Ogun
Samast outside the newspaper's offices in İstanbul in broad daylight.
Samast, tried in a juvenile court because he was a minor at the time
of the crime, was sentenced to nearly 23 years in prison. On Jan. 17,
2012, the İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court gave another suspect in
the case, Yasin Hayal, a life sentence for inciting Samast to commit
murder. Erhan Tuncel, who worked as an informant for the Trabzon
Police Department, was found not guilty of the murder and acquitted.
The prosecutor of the first trial said that the murder was planned
and carried out by the Ergenekon terrorist organization, but the court
denied the existence of organized criminal activity in the murder.
The prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Appeals later said that there
was a terrorist organization involved and that the state should
investigate it.
The 9th Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals in May ruled that there
was an organization involved, but said that it was a simple crime ring,
effectively denying that Ergenekon played any role in the murder.
Dink's lawyers had submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of
Appeals, arguing that the lower court's ruling violated the TCK by
acknowledging the existence of a criminal organization but declining
to investigate it, and that the court ignored evidence of a terrorist
organization.
As the verdict of the lower court was met with outrage by civil
society groups, politicians and others, tens of thousands of people
marched in protest in İstanbul.
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-326528-new-dink-trial-to-begin-after-court-of-appeals-ruling.html