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    EX-TURKISH POLICE CHIEF DETAINED OVER ALLEGED NEGLIGENCE IN ARMENIAN JOURNALIST'S KILLING

    Daily Journal
    Feb 26 2015

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's state-run news agency says a former police
    intelligence chief has been detained as part of an investigation
    into negligence by officials in the 2007 murder of an ethnic Armenian
    journalist.

    Anadolu Agency says Ramazan Akyurek was detained Thursday in Ankara
    for the death of Hrant Dink.

    Dink was gunned down outside his Agos newspaper by a nationalist
    teenage gunman who was convicted in 2011. The trial, however, failed
    to shed light on alleged official negligence or even collusion.

    Akyurek's detention follows a court ruling in June that reopened a
    negligence probe.

    Akyurek was among hundreds of police removed from their posts amid
    a purge of officers believed to be linked to a movement led by a
    U.S.-based Islamic cleric, which is accused of orchestrating corruption
    allegations targeting officials.

    http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/816796b55a8741bcbb98cebd6a8b8412/EU--Turkey-Journalists-Killing/

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