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WHY WILL THE HRANT DINK MURDER NOT BE SOLVED?
Cihan News Agency, Turkey
Jan 21 2015
ISTANBUL - 21.01.2015 11:42:41
by ORHAN KEMAL CENGÄ°Z
After Hrant Dink was murdered, gendarmerie and police officers took
turns taking photos with his murderer, Ogun Samast, at the offices of
Samsun's counterterrorism unit. They took these photos in front of a
calendar on which Ataturk's words, "The homeland cannot be abandoned,"
appeared on a Turkish flag.
When Samast was taken into BayrampaÅ~_a Prison after he was arrested,
there was a very warm welcome for him. According to eyewitnesses,
gendarmerie officers and prison guards lined up in the hall and they
all applauded Samast.
After Samast was arrested, all of a sudden some young football fans
started to wear white berets to show their sympathy with the murderer,
who was wearing a white beret when he killed Hrant.
On Jan. 19, 2014, when the last commemoration of the Dink murder
took place, some police officers were wearing white berets on the
streets as the procession passed by even though the weather was 18
degrees Celsius.
Do you know who Turkey's first ombudsman was? He was a member of the
chamber of the criminal court that approved Hrant Dink's sentence
of insulting Turkishness, under Article 301 of the Constitution. I
assume you can recall how Hrant was convicted. Some of his words
were cherry-picked from a long series of articles he wrote mainly for
diaspora Armenians. And these carefully tweezed words were represented
as insults to Turkey. It was so obvious that his remarks had nothing
to do with Turks; he was addressing Armenians.
Dink called on Armenians to get rid of their hatred towards Turks,
and so on. Even though legal experts and even some prosecutors pointed
out that his words said nothing to insult Turks, the appeals court
"misunderstood" them.
When Hrant's murderer was caught, he referred to these "misunderstood"
words and said he had punished Hrant for insulting Turkishness.
Do you know who brought this case against Hrant? The complaint was
made by a very famous lawyer who was conducting a psychological
lynching campaign against religious minorities and intellectuals.
Lawyer Kemal Kerincsiz was later on arrested for his connection to
the Ergenekon organization. However, he is free now, like all the
Ergenekon suspects.
Before Hrant was killed, intelligence reports arrived at the Ä°stanbul
Police Department stating that Samast had traveled from Trabzon to
Ä°stanbul with the intention of killing Hrant. None of the officers
acted on this intelligence.
You see, when we talk about Hrant Dink's murder we are talking about
a huge subject. There are hit men, provocateurs, people who aided and
abetted murderers, officers who did nothing to prevent a murder they
knew was coming and so on. At the same time, there is a culture and
atmosphere of hatred towards Armenians that is fed by the denial of
past atrocities.
Today, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) wants us to believe
that they will solve this murder by arresting a few police officers,
and somehow these police officers are said to be associated with the
Gulen movement, with which this government has been in a huge war
for quite some time.
They are the ones who chose this ombudsman, who freed the Ergenekon
suspects and who promoted the former governor of Ä°stanbul to the post
of interior minister. And they are the ones who continue to deny what
happened to Armenians in 1915.
And they want us to believe that they will solve this murder by making
a few apologies!
http://en.cihan.com.tr/news/Why-will-the-Hrant-Dink-murder-not-be-solved-_8185-CHMTY1ODE4NS81
From: Baghdasarian
Cihan News Agency, Turkey
Jan 21 2015
ISTANBUL - 21.01.2015 11:42:41
by ORHAN KEMAL CENGÄ°Z
After Hrant Dink was murdered, gendarmerie and police officers took
turns taking photos with his murderer, Ogun Samast, at the offices of
Samsun's counterterrorism unit. They took these photos in front of a
calendar on which Ataturk's words, "The homeland cannot be abandoned,"
appeared on a Turkish flag.
When Samast was taken into BayrampaÅ~_a Prison after he was arrested,
there was a very warm welcome for him. According to eyewitnesses,
gendarmerie officers and prison guards lined up in the hall and they
all applauded Samast.
After Samast was arrested, all of a sudden some young football fans
started to wear white berets to show their sympathy with the murderer,
who was wearing a white beret when he killed Hrant.
On Jan. 19, 2014, when the last commemoration of the Dink murder
took place, some police officers were wearing white berets on the
streets as the procession passed by even though the weather was 18
degrees Celsius.
Do you know who Turkey's first ombudsman was? He was a member of the
chamber of the criminal court that approved Hrant Dink's sentence
of insulting Turkishness, under Article 301 of the Constitution. I
assume you can recall how Hrant was convicted. Some of his words
were cherry-picked from a long series of articles he wrote mainly for
diaspora Armenians. And these carefully tweezed words were represented
as insults to Turkey. It was so obvious that his remarks had nothing
to do with Turks; he was addressing Armenians.
Dink called on Armenians to get rid of their hatred towards Turks,
and so on. Even though legal experts and even some prosecutors pointed
out that his words said nothing to insult Turks, the appeals court
"misunderstood" them.
When Hrant's murderer was caught, he referred to these "misunderstood"
words and said he had punished Hrant for insulting Turkishness.
Do you know who brought this case against Hrant? The complaint was
made by a very famous lawyer who was conducting a psychological
lynching campaign against religious minorities and intellectuals.
Lawyer Kemal Kerincsiz was later on arrested for his connection to
the Ergenekon organization. However, he is free now, like all the
Ergenekon suspects.
Before Hrant was killed, intelligence reports arrived at the Ä°stanbul
Police Department stating that Samast had traveled from Trabzon to
Ä°stanbul with the intention of killing Hrant. None of the officers
acted on this intelligence.
You see, when we talk about Hrant Dink's murder we are talking about
a huge subject. There are hit men, provocateurs, people who aided and
abetted murderers, officers who did nothing to prevent a murder they
knew was coming and so on. At the same time, there is a culture and
atmosphere of hatred towards Armenians that is fed by the denial of
past atrocities.
Today, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) wants us to believe
that they will solve this murder by arresting a few police officers,
and somehow these police officers are said to be associated with the
Gulen movement, with which this government has been in a huge war
for quite some time.
They are the ones who chose this ombudsman, who freed the Ergenekon
suspects and who promoted the former governor of Ä°stanbul to the post
of interior minister. And they are the ones who continue to deny what
happened to Armenians in 1915.
And they want us to believe that they will solve this murder by making
a few apologies!
http://en.cihan.com.tr/news/Why-will-the-Hrant-Dink-murder-not-be-solved-_8185-CHMTY1ODE4NS81
From: Baghdasarian