Hrant Dinks Son sentenced for insulting Turkishness!

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Hrant Dink´s son and editor of Agos newspaper sentenced for insulting Turkishness
Turkish daily Todays Zaman newspaper (12.10.07) reports the following:
An Istanbul Court on Thursday found the son of assassinated journalist Hrant Dink guilty of insulting Turkish identity but spared him a jail term.

Arat Dink and a colleague, Serkis Seropyan, were given a one-year suspended prison term after reproducing an interview in their newspaper with Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was killed in January. The judges at the court ruled that Dink and Seropyan, the chief editor and head writer for bilingual newspaper Agos, should not go to prison because they had no criminal record. The two journalists were charged under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK), which calls for the punishment of those who insult Turkishness.

The interview with Hrant Dink was published in July 2006, when he was editor-in-chief of Agos. The late Dinks comments often outraged Turkish nationalists, and he was also found guilty of insulting Turkish identity and given a six month suspended jail term. He was gunned down outside the Agos offices at the beginning of this year. The trial of his teenage self-confessed murderer and a number of alleged accomplices began in July.

DP:
Come on boys there must be a brainwashed ex Turkish military solider waiting with a M16 to silence this person?
Freedom of speech in Turkey? WHERE?? Let me know?
PS If I was Arat I would sleep with one eye open and bullet proof underwear!
Hey maybe an accidental car crash in a tunnel in France? NO! That been done before!
Hey maybe water in his airplanes fuel tank? No that been done before!
cheers Arat where ever you are!

[Dream_Merchant]

I already said it.

Kill the father, imprison the son, promote the killer. Go Captain Turkey go!

[Dream_Merchant]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7040976.stm

[Xenos 2Fan]

[repulsewarrior]

thanks for the info dep.

xenos, please, try to strain yourself a little bit with the witty repartee, your readers are waiting.

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