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"WE ARE ALL FROM TRABZON, WE ARE ALL TURKS, WE ARE ALL OGUN SAMAST, WE ARE ALL ALI AGCA"
Turkish Mob Makes Heroes of the Murderers
In an earlier publication by "Azg", entitled "About to Kiss the Murderer’s Forehead", we reported how Ogun Samast, murderer of Hrant Dink was welcomed as a hero at the Anti-Terrorist Department of the Samsun branch of the Turkish Seciruty Service. Later "Miliet" informed about new demonstrations of support for Yasin Hayal, arranger of the murder, and stressed that the demonstration participants expressed their hatred towards writer Orhan Pamuk, Patriarch Mesrob Mutafian and "Zaman" newspaper editor Etienne Mahjupian.
The website of the Turkish "Felitispor" football club, were Yasin Hayal was playing, is full of visitors’ messages expressing support and enthusiasm about Hayal’s and Samast’s deed. In spite of protest of mass media, those messages still remain on the website.
Moreover a new forum was opened on the Felitispor website. The forum is dedicated to threats and menaces addressed to Pamuk, Mutafian and other liberal personalities. Posts with the following content can be found on the forum: "The bullet will reach every single enemy of Turkey", "I am always with you, Ogun Samast", "We Are All from Trabzon, We Are All Turks, We Are All Ogun Samast, We Are All Ali Agca", and so on. On a recent football match at Afonkarahisar’s Ataturk Stadium the all the tribunes started shouting "We Are All Ogun", and some of the football fans put on white hats, following the example of the murderer.
Thus we face not only cowardness of a planned assassination, but also outrageous barbarianism of the Turkish mob, so enthusiastically welcoming the murderer. Now it seems of very little importance who has shot the gun on Hrant Dink, and who has taken photos with the murderer at the security service’s office, because thousands consider themselves willing to repeat the "exploit".
By H. Chaqrian