EXAMINATION OF COURT ACTION AGAINST HRANT DINK POSTPONED
ISTANBUL, MARCH 23, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Turkish court
postponed examination of the court action brought against Hrant Dink,
Arat Dink and Sargis Serovbian by the Shishli Prosecutor’s Office
according to Article 301 of the Criminal Code of Turkey. The next
court sitting will take place on June 14.
As Marmara states, the first sitting on the case took place on
September 22, 2006, but was postponed because of charge of the court.
To recap, Agos newspaper editor-in-chief Hrant Dink was killed on
January 19, 2007, from a Turk nationalist’s shot.
To also recap, the reason for bringing a court action was the
interview given by Hrant Dink to the Reuters agency where Dink said:
"Yes, I call those events a genocide. The people which lived on those
lands for four thousand years, was annihilated after the 1915 events."
Just this statement was considered one insulting Turkishness what is
considered criminally punishable in Turkey.