21 January: Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg stated in İstanbul on Friday that he was “shocked” by the court’s decision to acquit all 19 suspects of membership in a terrorist organization in the 2007 murder of Turkish-Arme
21 January: Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg stated in İstanbul on Friday that he was “shocked” by the court’s decision to acquit all 19 suspects of membership in a terrorist organization in the 2007 murder of Turkish-Arme
The Istanbul 14th High Criminal Court hearing issued its ruling earlier this week in the 25th hearing of the case. Primary suspects Yasin Hayal and Erhan Tuncel and all other suspects were cleared of charges of membership in a terrorist organization in the murder of Dink, who was shot dead outside the office of the Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos on Jan. 19, 2007