TURKEY WELCOMES PAROLE REJECTION OF DIPLOMAT’S MURDERER
Turkish Press
Feb 6 2015
Friday, February 6, 2015
ANKARA – Turkey has welcomed the rejection of parole to a convicted
murderer of a Turkish diplomat serving jail time in the U.S.
Armenian-origin Hampig Sassounian killed Turkish Consul General
Kemal Arikan in Los Angeles on Jan. 28, 1982. Authorities rejected
Sassounian’s request for bail.
“We welcome that the request for release on parole of the terrorist
Sassounian, who on 28 Jan.1982 assassinated Arikan in a treacherous
attack has been rejected at the parole hearing held on Friday,”
Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
“We consider this rejection decision as appropriate in terms of
universal principles of justice as well as necessary for an effective
and uncompromising stance against terrorism,” Spokesman Tanju Bilgic
said in the statement.
Bilgic also said that Turkey paid tribute to Arikan and other Turkish
diplomats and citizens who were victims of terrorism.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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