ISTANBUL. – Ahmet Sik, Nedim Sener and two more journalists, who were arrested in March 2011 and in connection with Turkey’s Ergenekon Case, were released from prison.  

According to the court ruling, the four imprisoned journalists were released taking into consideration the period of their time served and that the charges laid against them could be commuted, Milliyet daily of Turkey informs.  

Coming out of the prison, Nedim Sener, who had written a book about the murder of Hrant Dink—the founder and former chief editor of Istanbul’s Agos Armenian bilingual weekly, who was gunned down in 2007 in front of his office building—, stated that their objective is not to let Dink’s blood to remain spilled on the ground.

“I said ‘for Hrant, for justice,’ and I went into prison. And I am saying the same words when coming out of prison. My first news [article] will be in connection with Hrant Dink,” Nedim Sener said.      

Sener’s book, titled “Dink’s Murder and Intelligence Lies,” had received a huge response in Turkey, and, as a result, the police had filed a lawsuit against the journalist, but the court ultimately acquitted him.