“A prison sentence of more than 20 years for the assassination of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink was handed down by an İstanbul court on Monday. While the decision was hailed by Dink family lawyers, they also emphasized that justice will not be served unless all responsible for his assassination are put on trial,” Today’s Zaman newspaper reports.

“Arzu Becerik, a lawyer for the Dink family, said that the court gave Samast the maximum sentence it could. “We asked for a life sentence and the court gave it. However, the court had to reduce the sentence because Samast was a juvenile at the time of the crime,” she said, adding that Samast was 16-and-a-half years old when he shot Dink in January 2007,” the newspaper reads.

“The court has been consistent,” she said. However, the lawyers’ demands for merging all related cases have been denied, and the psychological effect of Samast’s sentencing has therefore been reduced. “Samast was a hitman; there are obviously other people behind the murder. They should be put on trial together in order for justice to be served in this case,” she said.

“Dink’s family and human rights activists argued that links between the suspects in the case and the real masterminds of the murder, suspected to be in the military and police force, were insufficiently investigated,” the source says.