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    PanARMENIAN.Net

    Turkish journalist may be sentenced to 17 years in prison for writing
    book about Hrant Dink
    02.05.2009 14:47 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Nedim Shener, journalist of Turkish Milliyet
    periodical, may be sentenced to 17 years in prison for writing a book
    entitled `Dink's Murder and the Falsehood of Secret Services'.

    The book describes how Turkish security forces failed to prevent
    Dink's murder. Several lawsuits have been filed against Shener. The
    first hearing is due on June 26. The lawsuits have been filed by
    police officers Mukhitin Zenit, Head of Police Investigative
    Department Ramazan Akurek and Head of Istanbul Police Investigative
    Bureau Ali Fuat Yulmazar.

    `I am alone with murderers in Istanbul Criminal Court. The officers
    who filed a case against me failed to conduct a proper investigation
    into the reports containing information about plans for assassinating
    Dink. They targeted me because I wrote the truth,' the journalist
    said.

    According to Mr. Shener, the investigators forged documents for
    concealing false information. `The false document issued by the Prime
    Minister's Investigative Committee revealed that falsehood. In
    particular, it says that Ataturk and Ilmazar failed to perform their
    duties. The report was undersigned by the Prime Minister. And I wrote
    about that. This is the only crime I committed.'

    Hrant Dink, Editor-in-Chief of Agos Armenian periodical, was killed
    near his office by nationalist Ogun Samast on January 19,
    2007. However, Turkish media recently reported the name of a different
    killer.
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