Six of eight Turkish Military personnel jailed for neglect of duty to protect Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink assassination.

Turkish court has sentenced two ranking military officers to six months and four other military personnel to four months in prison for ignoring intelligence that may have prevented the gunning down of the prominent ethnic Armenian journalist Hran Dink in 2007 in Hrant Dink Trial.

Trabzon Gendarmerie Commander Col. Ali Öz and Gendarmerie Intelligence Unit Director Cpt. Metin Yıldız were handed down prison sentences of six months, while NCOs Okan Şimşek, Veysel Şahin, Hüseyin Yılmaz and Hacı Ömer Ünalır were also each sentenced to four months in prison over the same charges.

New Turn in Hrant Dink Assassination and Trial

Reporter Hrant Dink was fatally shot by an alleged hardline nationalist teenager outside his newspaper’s İstanbul office on Jan. 19, 2007. He had received death threats because of his comments about Turkey Armenian relations. The ensuing investigation had stirred big controversy in Turkey. The investigation made it clear that the murderer hadn’t acted alone but was in fact driven by a group of people whom he called older brothers and who had plotted the assasination for more than a year.

 

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