CRIME COMMITTED AGAINST HRANT DINK WAS EXPECTED, NOR ZHAMANAKNER PARTY
CONSIDERS
YEREVAN, JANUARY 22, NOYAN TAPAN. Connecting the murder of renowned
public figure, publicist widely known in the world, editor-in-chief of
Agos newspaper, Hrant Dink with the purpose of violating stability
in Turkey is the result of simple imagination of this country’s
anti-popular forces. According to the statement of Nor Zhamanakner
(New Times) party Board, "indeed, such destiny of the journalist
promoting active public activity was predetermined by ill-fated Article
301 of Turkish Criminal Code, registering the accusation of "insulting
the Turkish identity." And it was natural that continual assertions on
Armenian Genocide by Hrant Dink convicted to six months’ conditional
imprisonment by the very above mentioned article as early as in 2005
could be a reason for such deliberate and impudently committed crime."