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Turkey’s state-run news agency says a Turkish court has sentenced two military officers to six months in prison for ignoring intelligence that may have prevented the killing of a prominent ethnic Armenian journalist, AP reports.
Reporter Hrant Dink was fatally shot by an alleged hardline nationalist teenager outside his Agos newspaper on Jan. 19, 2007. He had received death threats because of his comments about perhaps the darkest episode of Turkey’s history, the massacres of Armenians during World War I.
Anatolia news agency says the court in Trabzon, northern Turkey, on Thursday found former gendarmerie commander Col. Ali Oz and Capt. Metin Yildiz guilty of neglecting their duties.
The officers were accused of not acting on intelligence about the death threats Dink faced.