{"id":139766,"date":"2011-11-07T15:11:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T11:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=139766"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:12:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T11:12:05","slug":"dinks-murderer-recalled-at-istanbul-demonstration-against-ruling-in-rape-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/11\/07\/dinks-murderer-recalled-at-istanbul-demonstration-against-ruling-in-rape-case.html","title":{"rendered":"Dink&#8217;s Murderer Recalled At Istanbul Demonstration Against Ruling in Rape Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators gathered in Istanbul&#8217;s Taksim Square on Sunday were demanding a just ruling in the case of N.\u00c7., a 13-year-old girl who was &#8220;<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/11\/04\/pressure-mounting-on-court-over-rape-scandal-in-turkey.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">cajoled into sexual intercourse<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> with 26 individuals in exchange for money&#8221;. In their slogans demonstrators mentioned Og\u00fcn Samast, the 17-year-old nationalist charged with the 2007 murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist and editor Hrant Dink.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators were shouting, &#8220;If Og\u00fcn Samast was a child, then what is N.\u00c7.?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Recall, Samast was tried by Istanbul&#8217;s Heavy Juvenile Criminal Court which sentenced him to nearly 23 years in prison, taking into consideration the fact that he was a minor when he committed the crime.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators on Sunday were demanding the court amend its earlier verdict in the N.\u00c7. case. Recall, the 14th Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals on Oct. 31 upheld a decision by the Mardin 1st High Criminal Court to give 26 suspects, tried for raping N.\u00c7, a minor, in the southeastern province of Mardin, sentences ranging from one to six years in a trial earlier this year. The local court had justified its decision based on N.\u00c7.&#8217;s alleged \u201cconsent\u201d during sexual intercourse.<\/p>\n<p>N.\u00c7. went to the Mardin Police Department in 2002 to file a criminal complaint against the men. Some of the accused are civil servants, soldiers, a village head and teachers, and they have claimed they have been slandered and unjustly accused. N.\u00c7. is now 19.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Turkey&#8217;s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Adana deputy \u00d6mer \u00c7elik <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayszaman.com\/news-261666-turkish-politicians-blast-courts-on-reduced-sentence-for-rapists.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">harshly criticized<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> the Supreme Court of Appeals ruling on his Twitter feed, defining it as a \u201ccrime against humanity\u201d and asked: \u201cWhat can the judiciary protect, if it is unable to protect a 13-year-old innocent child?\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators gathered in Istanbul&#8217;s Taksim Square on Sunday were demanding a just ruling in the case of N.\u00c7., a 13-year-old girl who was&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[34250,10425,10933,34249,34237,17782,10811,17545,18006,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}