Los Angeles Times, CA
Jan 3 2007
Police pose with suspect in killing
>From Times Wire Reports
February 3, 2007
Turkish media published photographs and video of police posing with a
teenager charged with killing an ethnic Armenian journalist, and
newspapers denounced the officers for treating the suspect as a hero.
State-owned Anatolia news agency later reported that four police
officers had been dismissed and four military police officers had
been reassigned.
Ogun Samast, 17, is charged with the Jan. 19 killing of Hrant Dink,
52, who sought official recognition that the deaths of about 1.2
million Armenians in the final years of the Ottoman Empire
constituted genocide. The Turkish government disputes that a genocide
took place.