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threatened on Twitter. One post, seemingly referring to slain Turkish Armenian
journalist Hrant Dink, said, "the day is close that you will lie on the ground
Committee to Protect Journalists
The investigation is therefore exempt
from going beyond the immediate killers of Hrant Dink to seeking the
commissioners of the murder among power structures.
The date
chilling effect on freedom of expression. In the 2007 murder of journalist Hrant Dink, the court ruled the Turkish state had violated freedom of expression by
More reporters are jailed in Turkey than in any other country in the world. According to CPJ's recent survey, at least 61 are imprisoned directly for their work, representing the second biggest media crackdown in the 27 years we have been documenting such records. (Only Turkey itself has rivaled...
to a government intent on punishing critical reporters.
Sidebar: No Justice for Hrant Dink
In the case of a slain journalist, prosecutorial zeal is conspicuously absent.
Mert. The Turkey-based journalist Nicole Pope wrote “No Justice for Hrant Dink,” the sidebar to Chapter 3. “Online Censors Sharpen Tactics,”
suspected of involvement in the January 2007 slaying of Turkish-Armenian editor Hrant Dink walk free. Only the gunman, a teenager at the time, and three
Sidebar: No Justice for Hrant Dink
By Nicole Pope
Nearly six years after Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink
my book, I was arrested,” Şık said.
SIDEBAR: No Justice for Hrant Dink
Şık was swept up in the 18th wave of arrests that followed
wrote a book alleging government complicity in the 2007 murder of journalist
Hrant Dink, was charged in connection with the alleged Ergenekon conspiracy,
which prosecutors
