Ottawa Citizen
February 3, 2007 Saturday
Final Edition
Turkey: Officer suspended after posing with Dink suspect
Four police officers have been suspended from duty after posing in
front of a Turkish flag with the suspected murderer of an ethnic
Armenian journalist. Another four security police have been
transferred to other duties after film of the incident was shown on
Turkish television. It shows officials, some in uniform, arm-in-arm
with Ogun Samast, who has confessed to the murder of Hrant Dink, the
editor of Agos, a bilingual Armenian-Turkish newspaper. Mr. Dink, 52,
was hated by ultra-nationalists for his writings about the mass
killing of Armenians on Ottoman soil during the First World War.
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