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Turkey's BDP Calls for Parliamentary Inquiry of Dink Murder

Turkey's Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) filed a motion yesterday to launch a parliamentary inquiry into the murder of Hrant Dink.

The move comes just days after the sixth anniversary of Dink's murder was commemorated in Turkey.

The BDP motion says that public servants who neglected their duties, intentionally or deliberately, weren't investigated at all.

Dink was gunned down outside the office of Agos, the newspaper that he founded and was editor of, by Ogun Samast, a 17-year-old Turkish nationalist gunman.

After a two-year trial, Samast was convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to 22 years and 10 months of prison after a two year trial.

The court also ruled that Dink's murder was not an organized crime in spite of serious claims that some civil servants linked to the "deep state" were indirectly involved.

This decision was recently challenged by an appeal of the prosecutor's office of the Supreme Court of Appeals.

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