Turk gets life term for role in journalist killing (AP)

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 /

Turk gets life term for role in journalist killing (AP)

Hundreds of people hold placards that read 'This case won't end this way' outside a courthouse in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. A prosecutor is demanding life imprisonment for seven men accused of involvement in the killing of an ethnic Armenian journalist, Hrant Dink. Dink was shot outside his office in 2007 in an alleged nationalist killing. In July, a juvenile court sentenced a now 21-year-old hardliner to nearly 23 years in prison for killing Dink.(AP Photo)AP – A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced a man to life in prison for masterminding the killing of an ethnic Armenian journalist hated by hardline nationalists, but acquitted all 19 suspects of charges of acting under a terrorist organization’s orders.


Turk gets life term for role in journalist killing (AP)

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