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    Agence France Presse
    January 10, 2013 Thursday 7:53 PM GMT


    Turkey prosecutor wants Dink ruling overturned: report

    ISTANBUL, Jan 10 2013


    Turkey's top prosecutor on Thursday asked the appeals court to
    overturn a ruling that the murder of ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant
    Dink was not planned as part of a wider conspiracy, Anatolia news
    agency reported.

    "It is clear that the accused killed Hrant Dink on January 19, 2007,
    only because he belonged to another religion and nationality," the
    prosecutor of Turkey's supreme appeals court said in a notice.

    "The killing should be evaluated as an action to disrupt the unity of
    the state, carried out by an organisation in a systematic, organised
    and planned manner."

    A leading member of Turkey's tiny Armenian community, Dink, 52, was
    shot dead in broad daylight outside the offices of his bilingual
    weekly newspaper Agos.

    In 2011, an Istanbul court sentenced Dink's self-confessed killer Ogun
    Samast, a 17-year old high-school dropout, to 23 years in jail while
    Yasin Hayal received life imprisonment for inciting the murder.

    More than a dozen suspects were acquitted on criminal network charges
    as the court ruled there was no wider plot to kill Dink as alleged by
    his supporters.

    His assassination had sent shockwaves through Turkey and grew into a
    wider scandal following reports that state security forces had known
    of a plot to kill Dink but failed to act.

    Every year since Dink's murder, thousands have been gathering in front
    of Agos on the day of his murder to pay tribute to Dink, whose
    life-long campaign for reconciliation between Turks and Armenians won
    him as many enemies as admirers.

    More than 20 people will have to stand for a re-trial if the top
    appeals court decides in favour of the prosecutor's request.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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