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...what they saw as Turkey's interests. Their views are deeply isolationist and anti-Europe, and they oppose rights for minorities. Turks have long harbored suspicions about the existence of a "deep state," as this network is popularly called. But Feride Cetin, a lawyer for the Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was shot dead last year, considers this the first time specific linkages to elements in the security forces have emerged. "This is a very important opportunity," she says...
...ever wrote. Istanbul prosecutors have arrested 13 people, including a former general and a high-profile lawyer, on charges of "provoking armed rebellion against the government." They are suspected of involvement in last year's string of nationalist-motivated murders, which cost the lives of prominent ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and three Christian missionaries, according to newspapers...
...real outcome of Wednesday's bill may be to strengthen a growing tide of ultra-nationalist isolationism in Turkey, fueled by public perceptions of being unwanted by Europe (it is seeking to join the E.U.) and ignored by the U.S. One recent victim was high-profile Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was shot to death by a teenager with links to nationalist groups. His son, Arat Dink, and publisher Serkis Seropyan were sentenced on Friday to one year in jail for "insulting Turkishness" by referring to the Armenian genocide. They will appeal the verdict...
...Turkish Armenians do have a claim to the soil of this country, but not to take it away, as some accuse us of secretly plotting, but to be buried deep under it." Your funeral was spectacular. Tens of thousands marched. They carried signs that said, WE ARE ALL HRANT, WE ARE ALL ARMENIANS...
...KILLED. Hrant Dink, 52, prominent Turkish newspaper editor who championed the rights of ethnic Armenians; by a gunman who shot him as he was leaving his office; in Istanbul. Dink angered many Turks by challenging the official version of how hundreds of thousands of Armenians died during World War I, insisting that the dead were victims not of famine but of genocide. A suspect, Ogun Samast, 17, was arrested...