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Jan 24 2015
Attempt to associate Dink murder with `Hizmet', slammed by Friends of Hrant
by Kamil Maman
`Friends of Hrant' has harshly criticized the ruling Justice and
Development (AK Party) government over attempting to associate Dink's
murder with the Hizmet movement, inspired by the Turkish Islamic
scholar Fethullah Gülen.
A group called `Friends of Hrant' gathered in front of ÇaÄ?layan
Courthouse and held a press conference before the eight hearing in the
retrial of the Dink murder on Friday.
Calling on Turkish authorities to expose the real criminals behind the
Dink murder on behalf of the group, Cumhuriyet columnist Aydın Engin
stated that there is an attempt to associate the Dink murder with a
one individual or a group.
`There are attempts being made to associate the murder with the
nondescript structure called 'parallel.' However, we have known from
the beginning that it was a murder of national reconciliation,' said
Aydın during a press conference.
`Parallel structure' was a term invented by President Recep Tayyip
ErdoÄ?an to refer to the Gülen movement (Hizmet movement).
Underlining that the trial is nothing more than a show, he added
`Concealed evidence, suspected public officials being promoted instead
of convicted and court decisions have made them all pessimistic.'
Claiming that Dink was murdered as a result of cooperation between
police, soldiers, the National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T) and
some provocateurs, Aydın said `We know the names of most of the public
officials involved in the murder. They cannot make us believe in this
deceit. They cannot confine this trial only to the parallel
[structure] or any other particular structure.'
Dink was the editor-in-chief of the weekly Agos, and was considered to
be one of the most prominent Armenian voices in Turkey. He was shot
and killed by an ultra-nationalist teenager, who is serving a sentence
of 22 years and 10 months in a prison.
Jan 24, 2015 | Kamil Maman | Ä°stanbul
http://national.bgnnews.com/attempt-to-associate-dink-murder-with-hizmet-slammed-by-friends-of-hrant-haberi/3006
Jan 24 2015
Attempt to associate Dink murder with `Hizmet', slammed by Friends of Hrant
by Kamil Maman
`Friends of Hrant' has harshly criticized the ruling Justice and
Development (AK Party) government over attempting to associate Dink's
murder with the Hizmet movement, inspired by the Turkish Islamic
scholar Fethullah Gülen.
A group called `Friends of Hrant' gathered in front of ÇaÄ?layan
Courthouse and held a press conference before the eight hearing in the
retrial of the Dink murder on Friday.
Calling on Turkish authorities to expose the real criminals behind the
Dink murder on behalf of the group, Cumhuriyet columnist Aydın Engin
stated that there is an attempt to associate the Dink murder with a
one individual or a group.
`There are attempts being made to associate the murder with the
nondescript structure called 'parallel.' However, we have known from
the beginning that it was a murder of national reconciliation,' said
Aydın during a press conference.
`Parallel structure' was a term invented by President Recep Tayyip
ErdoÄ?an to refer to the Gülen movement (Hizmet movement).
Underlining that the trial is nothing more than a show, he added
`Concealed evidence, suspected public officials being promoted instead
of convicted and court decisions have made them all pessimistic.'
Claiming that Dink was murdered as a result of cooperation between
police, soldiers, the National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T) and
some provocateurs, Aydın said `We know the names of most of the public
officials involved in the murder. They cannot make us believe in this
deceit. They cannot confine this trial only to the parallel
[structure] or any other particular structure.'
Dink was the editor-in-chief of the weekly Agos, and was considered to
be one of the most prominent Armenian voices in Turkey. He was shot
and killed by an ultra-nationalist teenager, who is serving a sentence
of 22 years and 10 months in a prison.
Jan 24, 2015 | Kamil Maman | Ä°stanbul
http://national.bgnnews.com/attempt-to-associate-dink-murder-with-hizmet-slammed-by-friends-of-hrant-haberi/3006