{"id":513,"date":"2011-06-06T06:35:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T06:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnews.harouta.sg-host.com\/2011\/06\/06\/turkish-policemen-sentenced-over-hrant-dink-murder\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T16:45:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T12:45:38","slug":"turkish-policemen-sentenced-over-hrant-dink-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jff.am\/en\/2011\/06\/06\/turkish-policemen-sentenced-over-hrant-dink-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Policemen Sentenced Over Hrant Dink Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 2 a Turkish court handed down jail terms of between four and six months to a group of paramilitary policemen for negligence over the 2007 murder of a prominent ethnic Armenian journalist.<\/p>\n<p>Hrant Dink, 52, was shot dead in January 2007 outside the office of his newspaper in central Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>A colonel and five subordinates who held key posts in the coastal city of Trabzon when a group of local youths hatched the plot were sentenced by a court in the Black Sea port.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said police received prior intelligence of a plot to kill Dink which had been organized in Trabzon, home to the self-confessed gunman, aged 17 at the time of the murder.<\/p>\n<p>Dink had campaigned for reconciliation between Turks and Armenians over their bloody past.<\/p>\n<p>In September, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Turkish authorities had failed to take adequate measures to protect Dink.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/turkey_hrant_dink_murder_policemen_sentenced\/24213633.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RFE\/RL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On June 2 a Turkish court handed down jail terms of between four and six months to a group of paramilitary policemen for negligence over the 2007 murder of a prominent ethnic Armenian journalist.<\/p>\n<p>Hrant Dink, 52, was shot dead in January 2007 outside the office of his newspaper in central Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>A colonel and five subordinates who held key posts in the coastal city of Trabzon when a group of local youths hatched the plot were sentenced by a court in the Black Sea port.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said police received prior intelligence of a plot to kill Dink which had been organized in Trabzon, home to the self-confessed gunman, aged 17 at the time of the murder.<\/p>\n<p>Dink had campaigned for reconciliation between Turks and Armenians over their bloody past.<\/p>\n<p>In September, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Turkish authorities had failed to take adequate measures to protect Dink.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/turkey_hrant_dink_murder_policemen_sentenced\/24213633.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RFE\/RL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 2 a Turkish court handed down jail terms of between four and six months to a group of paramilitary policemen for negligence over the 2007 murder of a prominent ethnic Armenian journalist. 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