![]() ![]() The ruling came in response to five different applications by Dink before his death - on the grounds that his freedom of expression was violated - and his family following his assassination, claiming that Dink’s trial on charges of insulting Turkishness had made him a target of extreme nationalist groups. ![]() He received threats from extremist rightist groups and ultranationalist circles until he was shot dead on Jan. Demonstrators carried posters that read “we are all Hrant Dink” and “we are all Armenians.” Public frustration grew further after Dink’s death when it emerged that the teenage gunman was given a hero’s welcome at a police station following his detention, with officers taking pictures with Samast who was holding a Turkish flag.ĭink was convicted in 2005 for “insulting Turkishness” in a newspaper article, despite an expert report that he had not committed the said charge. The murder outraged many Turks and sparked a massive demonstration attended by tens of thousands of people on the day of his funeral. “Our efforts will not stop until those officials are brought to justice and punished,” she said in televised remarks on Tuesday.ĭink was shot dead in front of the office of his newspaper, Agos, in broad daylight. The court further noted that “none of the three state authorities informed of the planned assassination and its imminent realization had taken action to prevent it.” The judges also dismissed the Turkish state’s argument that they had not provide Dink with police protection because he had not requested it, by saying Dink could not possibly have known about the plan to assassinate him and it was the Turkish authorities’ - who were informed of the plan - responsibility to take action to safeguard his life.Īrzu Becerik, a lawyer for the Dink family, said the top court had agreed with their complaints that state officials were not prosecuted despite evidence showing their involvement in the murder. ![]() “In view of the circumstances, the threat of an assassination could be said to have been real and imminent,” the court said in a statement. The court said the police in both Trabzon - the hometown of the assailant, Ogün Samast - and İstanbul, and the Trabzon gendarmerie, had been informed of the likelihood of an assassination attempt, and even of the identity of the suspected instigators. Recent evidence has shown that some defendants in the Ergenekon case were in contact with suspects in the Dink case. Lawyers for Dink’s family want possible links between Ergenekon suspects and the Dink murder to be investigated. The Strasbourg-based court’s ruling, which also ruled that Turkey violated Dink’s freedom of expression, came amid widespread calls that the ongoing trial at an İstanbul court should also include state officials, as there was strong evidence to suggest that some officials in the police and gendarmerie knew about the murder in advance but took no action to prevent it. In a long-awaited ruling endorsed unanimously, the court also included a reference to possible links between the 2007 murder of Dink and Ergenekon, a clandestine terrorist group accused of plotting a military coup against the government. STRASBOURG - Turkey failed in its duty to protect the life of slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and to effectively investigate his murder, the European Court of Human Rights declared on Tuesday. Snoop Dogg then made an appearance as Willis' friend Vernon.Hrant Dink, the former editor-in-chief of the Armenian Agos newspaper, was gunned down by a hard-line nationalist teenager in front of his office on Jan. Then the episode began in earnest with Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman of Boyz 2 Men singing the theme song. The reenactment started out with an introduction by Todd Bridges, the original Willis actor, who honored his costars, Gary Coleman, Conrad Bain, Dana Plato, and Charlotte Rae. Kim Fields also made an appearance at the end of the episode alongside Welchel and Cohn to review the episode and talk about the experience, one that was doubly moving for Fields, who appeared in both The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes.įor the Diff'rent Strokes episode, a reenactment of the Season 1 episode "Willis' Privacy", there were some exciting guest stars as well. Will Arnett appeared as Dink Lockwood, Jason Bateman as Tim Holifield, and Jon Stewart as Carl "Rocky" Price. Soon after, some additional guest stars made their appearances in the reenactment of the episode "Kids Can Be Cruel" from the series' third season. In The Facts of Life portion of the event, things kicked off with appearances from two original stars of The Facts of Life, Lisa Welchel, who played Blair, and Mindy Cohn who originally played Natalie with Welchel singing the show's theme song. ![]()
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