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International Herald Tribune
Turkey’s parliament on Tuesday rejected an opposition motion to censure the interior minister over accusations that he failed to take effective measures to curb crime.

Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu’s Justice and Development Party easily defeated the censure-motion filed by the opposition center-right Motherland Party.

The motion was submitted following the Jan. 19 killing of ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink outside his office in Istanbul over allegations that police were informed of plans to kill him but failed to act. It also comes at a time of increasing crime rates in the country.

Aksu, who is in charge of police and security in the country, rejected the accusations as baseless before the lawmakers rejected the motion in a vote of show of hands.

The opposition center-right Motherland party, which tabled the motion, accuses Aksu of failure to take “measures against the increase in the number of terrorist attacks and events violating public order and security and extensive moral decline.” [Read More]