RETRIAL BEGINS OVER KILLING OF TURKISH-ARMENIAN HRANT DINK
Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Germany
September 17, 2013 Tuesday 3:16 PM EST
Istanbul
DPA x Turkey justice Retrial begins over killing of Turkish-Armenian
Hrant Dink Istanbul The retrial of suspects in the killing of
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink opened in Istanbul on Tuesday.
Dink, a vocal critic of the Turkish government, was shot dead in 2007.
A number of people have already been convicted over the killing, but
a retrial was ordered after an appeals court overturned the original
ruling that they had acted alone, stating they had been part of a
wider criminal conspiracy.
Relatives of Dink have long maintained that the Turkish state was
behind his murder.
Dink was the publisher of a Turkish-Armenian magazine, Agos, when he
was gunned down in an Istanbul street.
In 2010, the European Court of Human Rights said the Turkish government
had failed in its duty to protect him.
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