Turkey - More disappointing decisions in murder trial as Turkey turns a deaf ear to criticism

Reporters without borders

During the 15th hearing yesterday in the trial in Istanbul of newspaper editor Hrant Dink's alleged killers, the court rejected the Dink family's request for the murder to be reenacted in the presence of alleged hitman Ogün Samast at the spot where Dink was gunned down, outside the office of his Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos in the Istanbul district of Sisli. In a surprise development, the court decided that Samast should be tried separately before a special court for minors on the grounds (...)

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