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TURKISH JOURNALIST, WHO WROTE BOOK ON HRANT DINK, IS RELEASED
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March 13, 2012 | 10:01
ISTANBUL. - Ahmet Sik, Nedim Sener and two more journalists, who were
arrested in March 2011 and in connection with Turkey's Ergenekon Case,
were released from prison.
According to the court ruling, the four imprisoned journalists were
released taking into consideration the period of their time served
and that the charges laid against them could be commuted, Milliyet
daily of Turkey informs.
Coming out of the prison, Nedim Sener, who had written a book about
the murder of Hrant Dink-the founder and former chief editor of
Istanbul's Agos Armenian bilingual weekly, who was gunned down in
2007 in front of his office building-, stated that their objective
is not to let Dink's blood to remain spilled on the ground.
"I said 'for Hrant, for justice,' and I went into prison. And I
am saying the same words when coming out of prison. My first news
[article] will be in connection with Hrant Dink," Nedim Sener said.
Sener's book, titled "Dink's Murder and Intelligence Lies," had
received a huge response in Turkey, and, as a result, the police
had filed a lawsuit against the journalist, but the court ultimately
acquitted him.
From: Baghdasarian
news.am
March 13, 2012 | 10:01
ISTANBUL. - Ahmet Sik, Nedim Sener and two more journalists, who were
arrested in March 2011 and in connection with Turkey's Ergenekon Case,
were released from prison.
According to the court ruling, the four imprisoned journalists were
released taking into consideration the period of their time served
and that the charges laid against them could be commuted, Milliyet
daily of Turkey informs.
Coming out of the prison, Nedim Sener, who had written a book about
the murder of Hrant Dink-the founder and former chief editor of
Istanbul's Agos Armenian bilingual weekly, who was gunned down in
2007 in front of his office building-, stated that their objective
is not to let Dink's blood to remain spilled on the ground.
"I said 'for Hrant, for justice,' and I went into prison. And I
am saying the same words when coming out of prison. My first news
[article] will be in connection with Hrant Dink," Nedim Sener said.
Sener's book, titled "Dink's Murder and Intelligence Lies," had
received a huge response in Turkey, and, as a result, the police
had filed a lawsuit against the journalist, but the court ultimately
acquitted him.
From: Baghdasarian