Militant Nationalist Makes Nationalistic Threats
Charles Johnson
Wed Jan 24, 2007 at 2:47 pm PST • Views: 169
Militant nationalist murderer Yasin Hayal, who murdered Armenian journalist Hrant Dink for reasons of nationalism, threatened today to nationalistically murder a Turkish intellectual: Suspect in journalist death makes threat.
Also for nationalistic reasons.
ISTANBUL, Turkey - A man who confessed to inciting the murder of a prominent journalist shouted what appeared to be a threat against another leading Turkish intellectual on Wednesday, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk.
“Orhan Pamuk, be smart! Be smart!” Yasin Hayal shouted as he was being brought to an Istanbul courtroom with his hands cuffed behind his back. Police quickly pressed Hayal’s head down to silence him and led him away.
Hayal, a militant nationalist who served time in prison for a 2004 bomb attack, confessed to inciting last week’s slaying of the influential ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and to providing a gun and money to the alleged killer, police said.
Hayal allegedly told the killer that Dink, who angered nationalists by calling the mass killing of Armenians in the early 20th century genocide, was “a traitor to his country who insults Turks.”
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