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GUEST: Carla Garapedian, director of “Screamers”

This past Friday, film footage and photographs surfaced in Turkish media showing members of the Turkey’s security forces posing with the alleged murderer of journalist Hrant Dink. These photographs show Ogun Samast, the 17 year old confessed murderer of Dink, holding out a Turkish flag while being flanked by officers, some who were in uniform. The scandal is just the latest to trail the death of prominent and the outspoken Turkish-Armenian journalist. Police forces have already come under heavy criticism for allegations that they received a tip-off in the plot to kill Dink and failed to provide him special protection. Dink was murdered on January 19th outside of the Istanbul central office of the bilingual weekly newspaper Agos that he founded. A long time critic of Armenian genocide deniers, Dink received a suspended six-month jail sentence under law for “insulting Turkishness.” An estimated 100,000 people marched at his funeral last month and called for, among other things, repealing the law against insulting “Turkish national character.” Before his murder, Dink was featured in a documentary on genocides including the Armenian Genocide, entitled “Screamers.”