PRISON SENTENCES TO SIX TURKEY MILITARY OFFICIALS IN DINK TRIAL
National Turk
June 2 2011
Six of eight Turkish Military personnel jailed for neglect of duty
to protect Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink assassination.
Turkish court has sentenced two ranking military officers to six months
and four other military personnel to four months in prison for ignoring
intelligence that may have prevented the gunning down of the prominent
ethnic Armenian journalist Hran Dink in 2007 in Hrant Dink Trial.
Trabzon Gendarmerie Commander Col. Ali Oz and Gendarmerie Intelligence
Unit Director Cpt. Metin Yıldız were handed down prison sentences
of six months, while NCOs Okan Å~^imÅ~_ek, Veysel Å~^ahin, Huseyin
Yılmaz and Hacı Omer Unalır were also each sentenced to four months
in prison over the same charges.
New Turn in Hrant Dink Assassination and Trial Reporter Hrant Dink
was fatally shot by an alleged hardline nationalist teenager outside
his newspaper’s Ä°stanbul office on Jan.
19, 2007. He had received death threats because of his comments
about Turkey Armenian relations. The ensuing investigation had
stirred big controversy in Turkey. The investigation made it clear
that the murderer hadn’t acted alone but was in fact driven by a
group of people whom he called older brothers and who had plotted
the assasination for more than a year.
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