Journalist’s murder in Turkey is “attack on freedom of thought”
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of
Istanbul and Ankara to denounce the murder of Hrant Dink, a prominent
Turkish-Armenian journalist, after he was shot dead outside his
newspaper’s office.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Istanbul and
Ankara to denounce the murder of Hrant Dink, a prominent Turkish-Armenian
journalist, after he was shot dead outside his newspaper’s
office.
Police have released [security camera] pictures of a the man that they suspect of shooting Hrant Dink on Friday, he appears to be in his late teens or early 20s.
An arrest has been made. Prosecutors say the suspect has confessed. No details on motive. Nothing conclusive published, yet.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, has pledged to swiftly catch the perpetrators of what he called “an attack on freedom of thought”.
Dink, a well-known and respected journalist, angered the judiciary and Turkish nationalists with his remarks on the World War I mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire, which preceded the Turkish republic.
Dink’s conviction was the first under Article 301 of the new Turkish penal code, which deals with “insulting Turkishness” and has since been used to prosecute several other intellectuals.
We’ve been to this topic before — in Turkey. The history of indicting intellectuals, political activists, for sedition is nothing new. Everywhere.
Neither is the responsibility to oppose it.
Police have released [security camera] pictures of a the man that they suspect of shooting Hrant Dink on Friday, he appears to be in his late teens or early 20s.
An arrest has been made. Prosecutors say the suspect has confessed. No details on motive. Nothing conclusive published, yet.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, has pledged to swiftly catch the perpetrators of what he called “an attack on freedom of thought”.
Dink, a well-known and respected journalist, angered the judiciary and Turkish nationalists with his remarks on the World War I mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire, which preceded the Turkish republic.
Dink’s conviction was the first under Article 301 of the new Turkish penal code, which deals with “insulting Turkishness” and has since been used to prosecute several other intellectuals.
We’ve been to this topic before — in Turkey. The history of indicting intellectuals, political activists, for sedition is nothing new. Everywhere.
Neither is the responsibility to oppose it.
Posted: Sun - January 21, 2007 at 09:16 AM