AFP: Scandal in Turkey as police pose with journalist's alleged murderer

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Scandal in Turkey as police pose with journalist's alleged murderer

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ISTANBUL (AFP) - The Turkish security forces faces fresh embarrassment after it emerged
that some of its members had posed for "souvenir pictures" with the alleged murderer
of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

Film footage and photos leaked to the media showed 17-year-old Ogun Samast, who has
confessed to the murder, displaying a Turkish flag, flanked by members of the security
forces, some of them in uniform.

Behind them is a calendar featuring another Turkish flag and the words of the country's
founder, Ataturk: "The motherland's soil is sacred. It cannot be left to its destiny."

The images were taken at the anti-terror department in the northern city of Samsun,
where Samast was captured 32 hours after Dink was gunned down in central Istanbul on
January 19, officials said Friday.

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