IN TURKOLOGIST’S OPINION, MURDER OF HRANT DINK RELATED TO ITENSIFIED
POLITICAL STRUGGLE IN TURKEY
YEREVAN, JANUARY 20, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Hrant Dink’s murder
is related to the intensified political struggle in Turkey. Ruben
Safrastian, Director of the RA NAS Institute of Oriental Studies,
Turkologist, expressed this opinion at the January 20 press conference.
According to him, quite a complex political situation has formed
in Turkey on the threshold of presidential elections. The current
prime minister Recep Erdogan, who heads the pro-Islamic "Justice and
Development Party" has a great opportunity to win these elections. He
may replace the current president Ahmad Necdet Sezer, who is the last
Kemalist in the highest echelons of the Turkish leadership. Hrant
Dink’s assassination was committed at the time when there are open
talks about a military coup in Turkey. Safrastian noted that it can
be assumed that this murder was specially prepared for this political
moment in order to strain the home political situation even more, at
the same time increasing the pressure on Turkey from European circles.
R. Safrastian noted that a "deep state" or a state within the state
exists in Turkey. This is a group of high-ranking state officials whose
name are unknown but they make important state decisions and have
the opportunities for their implementation. According to some press
reports on the day of the murder, although those who committed it are
probably representatives of the Grey Wolves nationalist organization,
the decision was taken by this deep state which does everything
possible to maintain the Kemalist state in the country.
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IN TURKOLOGIST’S OPINION, MURDER OF HRANT DINK RELATED TO ITENSIFIED
POLITICAL STRUGGLE IN TURKEY
YEREVAN, JANUARY 20, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Hrant Dink’s murder is
related to the intensified political struggle in Turkey. Ruben Safrastian,
Director of the RA NAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Turkologist, expressed
this opinion at the January 20 press conference.
According to him, quite a complex political situation has formed in Turkey
on the threshold of presidential elections. The current prime minister Recep
Erdogan, who heads the pro-Islamic "Justice and Development Party" has a great
opportunity to win these elections. He may replace the current president
Ahmad Necdet Sezer, who is the last Kemalist in the highest echelons of the
Turkish leadership. Hrant Dink’s assassination was committed at the time when
there are open talks about a military coup in Turkey. Safrastian noted that it
can be assumed that this murder was specially prepared for this political
moment in order to strain the home political situation even more, at the same
time increasing the pressure on Turkey from European circles.
R. Safrastian noted that a "deep state" or a state within the state exists
in Turkey. This is a group of high-ranking state officials whose name are
unknown but they make important state decisions and have the opportunities for
their implementation. According to some press reports on the day of the murder,
although those who committed it are probably representatives of the Grey
Wolves nationalist organization, the decision was taken by this deep state which
does everything possible to maintain the Kemalist state in the country.
–Boundary_(ID_5bYfCS64OKaV72yZ8pIOmg)–