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Dink's murderer treated like hero?
02.02.2007 15:58 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey launched an inquiry into footage showing a
teenager charged with the murder of Agos editor Hrant Dink posing with
the Turkish flag and security officials after his arrest, police said
on Friday. A 17-year-old unemployed youth, Ogun Samast, has confessed
to the murder of Turkey's leading television channels showed video
footage of Samast posing in front of a Turkish flag, and holding
another flag next to security officials dressed in paramilitary police
uniforms shortly after his arrest on January 21. Media said the images
suggested Samast was treated like a hero. "The pictures were shown on
television in the evening (of Thursday) and inspectors will clarify
who took the pictures and why. We in the police will do everything
necessary," national police spokesman Ismail Caliskan told a news
conference. "Whoever is responsible will be given the appropriate
punishment." Liberal newspaper Radikal editor-in-chief Ismet Berkan
said the video images were worse than the murder itself. He said it
showed extreme nationalism in Turkey was again on the rise. Pressure
is mounting on the government to crack down on ultra-nationalist
groups, a tricky task in a year of presidential and parliamentary
elections, reports Reuters.
Dink's murderer treated like hero?
02.02.2007 15:58 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey launched an inquiry into footage showing a
teenager charged with the murder of Agos editor Hrant Dink posing with
the Turkish flag and security officials after his arrest, police said
on Friday. A 17-year-old unemployed youth, Ogun Samast, has confessed
to the murder of Turkey's leading television channels showed video
footage of Samast posing in front of a Turkish flag, and holding
another flag next to security officials dressed in paramilitary police
uniforms shortly after his arrest on January 21. Media said the images
suggested Samast was treated like a hero. "The pictures were shown on
television in the evening (of Thursday) and inspectors will clarify
who took the pictures and why. We in the police will do everything
necessary," national police spokesman Ismail Caliskan told a news
conference. "Whoever is responsible will be given the appropriate
punishment." Liberal newspaper Radikal editor-in-chief Ismet Berkan
said the video images were worse than the murder itself. He said it
showed extreme nationalism in Turkey was again on the rise. Pressure
is mounting on the government to crack down on ultra-nationalist
groups, a tricky task in a year of presidential and parliamentary
elections, reports Reuters.