‘I Wish He were Here Today…’ Davutoglu Comments on Dink Case

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Wednesday they did not plan to appeal a top European court ruling against Turkey in the case of slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, reports Anadolu Ajansi. 

“We are not planning to appeal the ruling to the Grand Chamber and we are ready to conduct a meticulous work on the elements of the ruling,” Ahmet Davutoglu told a state-run news channel.

Davutoglu was referring to Tuesday’s ruling of a chamber of the European Court of Human Rights which convicted Turkey of breaching several articles of the European Convention on Human Rights in the case on the killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

“We have repeatedly expressed how sorry we are by the killing of Dink. I wish he were here today on his birthday and see that just three days ago an overwhelming proportion of the Turkish people approved a constitutional reform that is based on human rights,” Davutoglu said.

Davutoglu said that it was the Turkish government’s obligation to do “whatever is needed about the setbacks in protecting the life of Hrant Dink.”