COMMANDER FACES TRIAL IN DEATH OF TURKISH-ARMENIAN SOLDIER
Hurriyet Daily News
June 29 2012
Turkey
A military court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır has agreed
to try the commander of a Turkish-Armenian soldier who was killed under
suspicious circumstances while performing his military service in 2011.
Non-commissioned officer Sabrettin Ersöz will stand trial as part
of a case into the killing of Sevag Å~^ahin Balıkcı on charges of
“abuse of office through negligence.”
Balıkcı was shot in a gendarmerie station of Batman province
by another soldier, Kıvanc Agaoglu, who was also performing his
military service. The incident took place April 24, 2011, the same
date Armenians mark the anniversary of the events of 1915.
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