Four years have passed after Dink’s murder
Four years after the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, the trial has not reached a just conclusion.
Some Turkish political scientists think that Dink's murder was plotted to deepen national intolerance in Turkey, to aggravate the domestic political situation and to smear the country's image on the international arena. Armenian political scientists and Dink's advocates believe that the murder was ordered by state officials.
Ruben Safrastyan, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, thinks Dink's murder will not be solved as long as these officials continue to hold high posts.
"It is not accidental that no positive developments have been registered in the trial. I am more than convinced that the real perpetrators will avoid justice," said the turkologist adding that the murder had been ordered by the state.
According to Mr. Safrastyan, the organizers did not expect the murder to arouse deep public uproar.
"Represenattives of Turkish intelegentsia also condemns the murder and demand to bring the perpetrators to justice," he said.
An event dedicated to the forth year of Dink's murder was organised in Turkey on January 19.
An event to commemorate Hrant Dink's memory also took place in the Armenian cemetery in Istanbul.
Hrant Dink, the late editor-in-chief of the Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos, was shot dead by an ultranationalist teenager outside the offices of his newspaper in İstanbul on January 19, 2007.
Those who masterminded Dink's murder still need to be exposed and punished.
