European court fines Turkey over journalist’s killing
ANKARA – European court has ordered a compensation to be paid to the family of an ethnic Armenian Turkish journalist who was killed in 2007, Turkish media reported.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found the Turkish government in violation of the European convention’s clauses on the rights to live, freedom of speech and proper legal defense, claiming Hrant Dink’s family members were entitled to compensation worth 133,000 euros.
The ruling was issued following a plea filed by the journalist’s relatives.
The lawsuit filed with the ECHR maintained that the Turkish government had failed to protect the life of Dink, who was killed in an attack, and to properly investigate the crime.
Dink, the founder and editor of the Agos newspaper, published in Istanbul in Armenian and Turkish, was gunned down outside the editorial office in January 2007. His killer was seized.
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