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Friday, January 20, 2012

Yet another scandal of ‘Turkish justice’

Yet another scandal of ‘Turkish justice’

The court case about the murder of Hrant Dink, a prominent Armenian journalist of Turkish citizenship, ended last week with public protests. The judge sentenced the shooter and his closest conspirator, but failed to find a “terrorist organization” behind the plot, drawing reactions from the entire mainstream Turkish media. On Jan. 19 at least 30,000 people, from all walks of life, marched in Istanbul to protest the court and the state powers that they thought had obscured justice.

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