‘DEEP STATE’ KILLED HRANT DINK

PanARMENIAN.Net
21.01.2008 12:57 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Turkey’s atmosphere of intolerance is to blame
for the murder of Hrant Dink," Turkish academic in the United States
Taner Akcam said Thursday.

"Turkey’s "deep state" is guilty of masterminding last year’s killing
of Dink, a prominent Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor," said Akcam.

"This "deep state" is an underground coalition of part of the
security forces and unelected bureaucrats determined to impede
Turkey’s democratization. Dink’s murder was much more complicated
than an isolated crime and was a result of a "dangerous mindset,"
he added, Turkish Daily News reports.

Dink, editor of the Armenian-Turkish Agos newspaper, was shot to death
in front of his Istanbul office on Jan. 19, 2007. A nationalist youth,
Ogun Samast was apprehended for the murder and has confessed to the
crime. His trial is ongoing.