Turkish Police Official Suspended
February 6th, 2007 by
The Interior Ministry suspended intelligence chief Ahmet Ilhan Guler late Monday as part of the government’s investigation into the killing of Hrant Dink.
Guler was suspended for not reporting a tip to his superiors that came 11 months before the deadly attack, the Daily Sabah newspaper reported Tuesday.
Dink was gunned down in broad daylight on Jan. 19 outside his bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper, Agos. A 17-year-old Turkish nationalist has been charged with his death.
The 52-year-old journalist had angered Turkish nationalists with repeated assertions that the mass killings of Armenians around the time of World War I were genocide.
More than 100,000 people marched at Dink’s funeral, many of them demanding that Turkey abolish a law that makes it a crime to insult Turkey or the Turkish national character. [Read More]
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