{"id":82166,"date":"2011-04-05T10:35:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T05:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=82166"},"modified":"2011-04-05T10:36:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T05:36:29","slug":"ogun-samast-accuses-turkish-media-in-dink-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/05\/ogun-samast-accuses-turkish-media-in-dink-murder-case.html","title":{"rendered":"Og\u00fcn Samast Accuses Turkish Media in Dink Murder Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Og\u00fcn Samast, the hitman in the murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, said yesterday that he is not guilty, but that the guilty ones are those whose newspaper headlines stated that Dink was a traitor, reports Today&#8217;s Zaman.<\/p>\n<p>The hitman\u2019s remarks came in a letter he submitted on Monday to an \u0130stanbul juvenile court where he is standing trial. \u201cI am not guilty. The ones who are guilty are the newspaper headlines that portrayed Hrant Dink as a traitor. I got rid of the trash in my eye. Now let the ones who prepared those headlines think. Where are the ones who brought me to this point? I did not know about Agos. My veins were filled with ignorance then. I learned about Dink from newspaper headlines. And I sacrificed myself. \u2026 I am afraid of Yasin Hayal,\u201d the letter read.<\/p>\n<p>Samast was 17 at the time he shot Dink outside the office of the Agos daily, where Dink was the editor-in-chief, on Jan. 19, 2007. Hayal is also a prime suspect in the murder case of Dink. The hitman also stated in his letter that he first planned to punch Dink in the face when he met him first in front of Agos. \u201cI would punch him twice, but I was confused. They sacrificed me,\u201d he said.<\/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>Og\u00fcn Samast, the hitman in the murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, said yesterday that he is not guilty, but that&#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":82162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[703,10425,17782],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82166"}],"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=82166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}