Turkish prosecutors interrogate 2 new suspects in killing of ethnic Armenian journalist
February 26th, 2007 by
Police detained the two on Saturday in Trabzon, the Black Sea port city where all eight other suspects, including the alleged teenage triggerman, lived. Police, meanwhile, released another suspect in Istanbul following his interrogation over the weekend, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported Monday.
Last month’s killing of ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in Istanbul prompted international condemnation as well as debate within Turkey about free speech, and whether state institutions were tolerant of militant nationalists.
On Friday, a group of activists invited prosecutors to press charges against them in a protest against a law that restricts free speech and has been used to prosecute intellectuals.
Five members of the small Powerful Turkey Party stood in front of a prosecutor at a courthouse and repeated statements by Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk, slain journalist Dink and other intellectuals that were used as evidence to prosecute them under Article 301 of Turkey’s penal code, which bans insults to Turkish identity. [Read More]
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