ISTANBUL (Today’s Zaman)–If Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, murdered in 2007 in front of the offices of the bilingual Armenian weekly Agos, were alive today, he would have been happy with the Ergenekon trials, Agos Editor Sarkis Seropyan said Monday.
“If Hrant were alive and saw the Ergenekon case, he would have been over the moon,” he told Today’s Zaman. “He would have supported the Ergenekon case much more than what we are able to do at Agos. He would not have been satisfied just by presenting the news related to Ergenekon.”
The Ergenekon case in Turkey has been investigating a neo-nationalist gang believed to be the extension of a clandestine network of groups with members in the armed forces and accused of being behind a number of unsolved murders of journalists, academics, public-opinion leaders and writers.
“It was his dream that those people’s masks would drop,” Seropyan said, referring to alleged members of Ergenekon investigated by the Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office.
An investigation in the wake of the Dink assassination revealed that a group of ultranationalists was behind the murder. Strong evidence suggested that some members of the group had ties with the police department in northern Trabzon, the hometown of the plotters.
Some gendarmes later confirmed that they had been tipped off about the plot to kill Dink before the murder was committed.
Although three years have passed since Dink was killed, the investigation into his brutal murder has yielded no conclusion.
The scum bag that tried to assissinate the Pope is also part of Ergenekon pretending to be insane. He also murdered a Turkish journalist. Yet everytime someone tries to post it on USAToday as a blog, it is convieniently erased.
May they go to Jahenem, and their complicit leaders as well and quickly.