03 02 2007 - Hrand Dink's murderer treated like hero?

Turkey launched an inquiry into footage showing a teenager charged with the murder of Agos editor Hrant Dink posing with the Turkish flag and security officials after his arrest, police said on Friday. A
17-year-old unemployed youth, Ogun Samast, has confessed to the murder of Turkey's leading television channels showed video footage of Samast
posing in front of a Turkish flag, and holding another flag next to security officials dressed in paramilitary police uniforms shortly after his arrest on January 21. Media said the images suggested Samast
was treated like a hero. "The pictures were shown on television in the evening (of Thursday) and inspectors will clarify who took the pictures and why. We in the police will do everything necessary,"
national police spokesman Ismail Caliskan told a news conference.
"Whoever is responsible will be given the appropriate punishment."
Liberal newspaper Radikal editor-in-chief Ismet Berkan said the video images were worse than the murder itself. He said it showed extremenationalism in Turkey was again on the rise. Pressure is mounting on the government to crack down on ultra-nationalist groups, a tricky task in a year of presidential and parliamentary elections, reports Reuters.

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