Police pose with suspect in killing
Turkish media published photographs and video of police posing with a teenager charged with killing an ethnic Armenian journalist, and newspapers denounced the officers for treating the suspect as a hero.
State-owned Anatolia news agency later reported that four police officers had been dismissed and four military police officers had been reassigned.
Ogun Samast, 17, is charged with the Jan. 19 killing of Hrant Dink, 52, who sought official recognition that the deaths of about 1.2 million Armenians in the final years of the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide. The Turkish government disputes that a genocide took place.
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