17-year-old Turkish nationalist, Ogun Samas, who is charged with the murder of Hrant Dink, a 52-year-old ethnic Armenian journalist who had angered Turkish nationalists with repeated assertions that the mass killings of Armenians around the time of World War I was genocide, was captured on tape with the Turkish flag and security officials after his arrest.
The fact that the smiling officers were posing with the confessed murderer caused a major stir, as newspapers denounced the officers for treating the suspect as a "hero." The photographs show 17-year-old nationalist Ogun Samast holding out a Turkish flag and posing with officers, some in uniform. Behind Samast, a poster with another Turkish flag carries the words of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the revered founder of modern Turkey: "The nation´s land is sacred. It cannot be left to fate."
The fact that the smiling officers were posing with the confessed murderer caused a major stir, as newspapers denounced the officers for treating the suspect as a "hero." The photographs show 17-year-old nationalist Ogun Samast holding out a Turkish flag and posing with officers, some in uniform. Behind Samast, a poster with another Turkish flag carries the words of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the revered founder of modern Turkey: "The nation´s land is sacred. It cannot be left to fate."
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