Ogün Samast, the young man who shot and killed in 2007 to Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, said in court that the judges who committed the crime under the influence of some media described Dink as a "traitor."
Samast, who was a minor when he committed the murder on January 19, 2007 and has therefore been tried separately, on Monday attended the second hearing before the juvenile court deems appropriate in Istanbul. In a letter written by himself and presented yesterday to the court, the boy accused the media of taking him to shoot Hrant Dink, who was killed as he left the offices of the Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos in Istanbul, which he himself was editor in chief.
"Not guilty. Holders (media) that Dink had like a traitor were to blame. Now we've opened my eyes let those who wrote those headlines think about it ... Where are the people that led me to this process (judicial)? Did not even know what was Agos (the newspaper that ran Dink) "wrote Samast in the letter. The young man also said it could simply have beaten the Turkish-Armenian journalist, but that there were" people who convinced me "that was more away and shot him.
Since the crime was committed, the platform "Friends of Hrant Dink in Turkey has been reporting that the trial is still in the country's murder has gotten past the officials who incited the crime or allowed to be committed, including police officials who were aware of the threats against him. Dink had been the subject of a media lynching campaign after he published an article in the newspaper "Agos" which ensured that Sabiha Gökçen (the first woman pilot of Turkey and the world's first fighter pilot), daughter Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's adopted, was of Armenian origin.
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