Turkish journalist demands investigation into organization of Hrant
Dink’s funeral
armradio.am
24.02.2007 12:11
Public Prosecutor’s Office of Istanbul’s Sisli district has launched an
investigation into Sisli Mayor Mustafa Sarigül and the committee that
organized the funeral for journalist Hrant Dink, the slain editor of
the Turkish-Armenian Agos weekly, for the slogans `We are all
Armenians’, `We are all Hrant Dink’, Milliyet daily informs.
A reporter for a local daily in the northern city of Sinop, Mete
Cagdas, filed a complaint to the local Prosecutor’s Office in Sinop.
Cagdas’s application accused Sisli Mayor Mustafa Sarigül and the
funeral organizers of turning the atmosphere at the funeral into one
for a fallen "militant," a term used subjectively in this case to
discredit the legitimacy of the protests.
According to Milliyet’s report, the Prosecutor General’s Office in
Sinop had no jurisdiction in the case and relayed the file to the Sisli
chief prosecutor’s office in late January. Sisli prosecutors launched
an investigation which might end up in a law suit against the
organizers or in dismissal. In either case, the Sisli office will have
to make a statement clarifying its opinion of the funeral slogans.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
