Scandal Tails Death of Turkey Journalist
February 2nd, 2007 by
Chicago Tribune
The Turkish media published photographs and video on Friday of police posing with a teenager charged with killing an ethnic Armenian journalist, and newspapers denounced the officers for treating the suspect as a “hero.”
The photographs show 17-year-old nationalist Ogun Samast holding out a Turkish flag and posing with officers, some in uniform. Behind Samast, a poster with another Turkish flag carries the words of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the revered founder of modern Turkey: “The nation’s land is sacred. It cannot be left to fate.”
Samast is charged with the Jan. 19 killing of Hrant Dink, a 52-year-old ethnic Armenian journalist who had angered Turkish nationalists with repeated assertions that the mass killings of Armenians around the time of World War I was genocide. [Read More]
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February 2nd, 2007 at 5:05 pm
This is disgusting. If the military and the police treat samast like a hero…I question the upcomming trial, if it ever occurs. Turkey either planned the murder…or encouraged it through over 90 years of indoctrination and current encouragement.