ECHR finds Turkey guilty in case involving Dink murder

ECHR finds Turkey guilty in case involving Dink murder
September 14, 2010 - 15:53 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found the Turkish state guilty in the case involving the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

The case at the European court was initially investigating the conviction of Dink for insulting Turkishness in his column in Agos weekly. The journalist had brought the case against the Turkish state to the European court.

After Dink was murdered by an ultranationalist in front of his newspaper's office in Istanbul in 2007, his family opened an additional case at the high court, accusing the Turkish state of failing to protect the journalist's right to life.

The two cases were later merged.

The court found the Turkish state guilty on two charges, sentencing the state to pay 133,595 euros to Dink's family in compensation and an extra payment of 28,595 euros to the court for expenditures, Hurriyet Daily News reported.

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