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TURKEY ARRESTS TWO POLICE OVER ARMENIAN JOURNALIST MURDER
Al-Arabiya, UAE
Jan 13 2015
By AFP | Istanbul
Tuesday, 13 January 2015
Turkey on Tuesday arrested two police officers for failing to prevent
the 2007 murder of an ethnic Armenian journalist, local media reported.
Ozkan Mumcu and Muhittin Zenit have been charged with "negligence"
for failing to act on intelligence and prevent the murder of Hrant
Dink and of failing to carry out an effective probe.
They also face charges of "causing death by negligence" and "abuse
of power," the Dogan news agency reported.
It is the first time state officals have been charged over the
journalist's assasination.
Dink was shot dead in broad daylight by a teenage ultranationalist
outside the offices of his bilingual Agos newspaper, sending shockwaves
through Turkey.
Ogun Samast, then a 17-year-old jobless high-school dropout, confessed
to the murder and was sentenced to almost 23 years in jail in 2011.
The murder grew into a wider scandal after it emerged that the security
forces knew of a plot to kill Dink, but failed to act.
Turkey's top court in July ruled that the investigation into the
killing had been flawed, paving the way for the trial of state
officials who could be implicated in the murder.
Seven other officials, including the then Istanbul police chief,
are currently on trial on charges of negligence.
Dink, 52, had campaigned for reconciliation between Turks and
Armenians, but incurred the wrath of Turkish nationalists for calling
the mass killings of Armenians during World War I a genocide.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/media/print/2015/01/13/Turkey-arrests-two-police-over-Armenian-journalist-murder-.html
Al-Arabiya, UAE
Jan 13 2015
By AFP | Istanbul
Tuesday, 13 January 2015
Turkey on Tuesday arrested two police officers for failing to prevent
the 2007 murder of an ethnic Armenian journalist, local media reported.
Ozkan Mumcu and Muhittin Zenit have been charged with "negligence"
for failing to act on intelligence and prevent the murder of Hrant
Dink and of failing to carry out an effective probe.
They also face charges of "causing death by negligence" and "abuse
of power," the Dogan news agency reported.
It is the first time state officals have been charged over the
journalist's assasination.
Dink was shot dead in broad daylight by a teenage ultranationalist
outside the offices of his bilingual Agos newspaper, sending shockwaves
through Turkey.
Ogun Samast, then a 17-year-old jobless high-school dropout, confessed
to the murder and was sentenced to almost 23 years in jail in 2011.
The murder grew into a wider scandal after it emerged that the security
forces knew of a plot to kill Dink, but failed to act.
Turkey's top court in July ruled that the investigation into the
killing had been flawed, paving the way for the trial of state
officials who could be implicated in the murder.
Seven other officials, including the then Istanbul police chief,
are currently on trial on charges of negligence.
Dink, 52, had campaigned for reconciliation between Turks and
Armenians, but incurred the wrath of Turkish nationalists for calling
the mass killings of Armenians during World War I a genocide.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/media/print/2015/01/13/Turkey-arrests-two-police-over-Armenian-journalist-murder-.html