ANKARA. – With all due respect to Turkish judiciary, everyone has seen what kind of reaction the verdict on the Hrant Dink case has received. The cry echoing from the public should be taken into consideration, Turkish famous journalist Mehmet Ali Birand wrote in his article in Hurriyet Daily News.

“The judiciary has rejected the claim that this murder was planned and executed by a group. It seems that two children playing cards once said to each other, ‘Come on, let’s go to Istanbul and kill this Armenian.’ They wandered around and when they came across Hrant in front of Agos newspaper one of them pulled the trigger. The verdict that the court reached, is even being laughed at by the crows,” he wrote.

Birand stresses that everybody knew where the gun was bought and who was to shoot.

“What a judiciary it is that arrests people for holding posters or stigmatizes as terror organizations those protests where three people gather, all of a sudden, decides that there was no organization in the Hrant murder.

The state should also start acting. The state must start an investigation for those civil servants who have sheltered the criminals, who have not fulfilled their responsibilities and who had a share in the murder of Hrant Dink.

Hrant Dink’s case should not be left unsolved. Hrant did not deserve this.

Or do we deem this treatment suitable for him because he is an Armenian?” Birand concluded.