From Little Green Footballs:

Media Blackout: "I Shot the Non-Muslim"

The assassination of Turkish-Armenian writer Hrant Dink is being universally portrayed as ethnic strife, a political act by Turkish nationalists against an Armenian critic.

Call me Mr. Suspicious, but when I see the entire media monolith pushing an idea like that with so much enthusiasm, I start looking for the real explanation.

And the real explanation, as with so many of these media smokescreens, is jihad. Turkish-Armenian editor shot dead in Istanbul. (Hat tip: Paul.)

NTV television said Dink had been shot three times in the head and neck.

Muharrem Gozutok, a restaurant owner near the newspaper, said the assailant looked about 20, wore jeans and a cap and shouted “I shot the non-Muslim” as he left the scene.

This little piece of essential information is now being excised from all wire service and media reports.

You won’t find it in the latest version of the Reuters report above: Turkish-Armenian editor shot dead in Istanbul.

You won’t find it in the Associated Press version: Turkey Shocked by Slaying of Journalist.

You won’t find it at CNN: Journalist’s killing shocks Turkey.

You won’t find it in the Washington Post: Outspoken Editor Is Slain in Turkey.

You won’t find it in the Los Angeles Times: Journalist slain in Turkey.

And you sure won’t find it in the New York Times: Armenian Editor Is Slain in Turkey.

A video grab released by Turkish police shows an image of a man suspected of killing journalist Hrant Dink, one of Turkey’s most prominent ethnic Armenians, as the government came under fire for failing to protect him despite nationalist threats.

UPDATE at 1/20/07 11:35:18 am:

You will find it in the UK’s Telegraph, which also provides a slightly better translation: Turkish journalist who spoke up for Armenians is shot dead in the street.

Witnesses said the assailant was a teenager wearing a white cap and jeans. “He shouted ‘I shot the infidel’ as he ran away,” said Muharrem Gozutok, a restaurant owner.

 

swhitebull

Wow Swhitebull congratulations on finding another way to bash Islam

First of all no one in Turkey thinks this is a simple nationalist or extreme islamic guys attack
Most of the um...well educated people thinks this is something deeper just like assasination of Ugur Mumcu or other people who plays a lot with secrets
Some thinks this is a simple fascist(well these guys are currently happy of his death)
Some thinks he is  a simple extremereligious(cultist) guy who is aganist secularism.There were several attacks aganist secularism in the last 30 years
Some thinks this is done by outher powers to stop Turkey from joning EU or to make it lose prestige(well we sure lost)
Some thinks he is working for Armenia-the aim of the assasination was to show Turks as killers,to make us seem like we're killing people who do not agree us
or maybe it was because of other political reasons
These are all conspiracies but as I said it's not a simple thing

Since this not a good thing for Turkey at all,a person who loves this country WOULDN'T do such a thing

Oh and no one in Turkey(except fascists-low number) is happy because of this
We lost a democracy defender

And the way media shows this to world,well it's urely wrong or details are wrong!

Thank you  - it was fairly easy. And speaking of simple, the most obvious or simplest reason is usually the correct one.

swhitebull -  not rocket science here, or what about "I SHOT THE INFIDEL" do you not understand?

Well since you do not live in Turkey I can not explain these to you
Turkey is a multicultural and multireligious country
The people living in Turkey calls themselves Turks,just like me.We speak Turkish and we have Turkish cultures
But ethnically we're not Turks.I mean not 100/100 percent
for e.g I'm a mixture of Turk,Rum(Byzantine),Persian and Bulgarian
Just look at USA,is there a race called American?no but they're together
Just like us,the real Turks are in central asia

Anyway there are people from various religions in this country
No one kills them
The reason of this assasination is DEFINETLY not religion.You do not know this country,no one kills other because of their beliefs(there are exceptions of course)


and don't beleve everything you hear,althought it maybe right I haven't heard anything like"kafiri vurdum(i shot the infidel)"
Actually it is though that this guy is from an organisation which is aganist secularism
Another guy from this org has killed a high ranking secular government guy last year

But there is not point in killing this guy for religion.I believe it was for destroying Turkeys reputation or maybe for helping Armenians for more support
Or maybe these are communist seperatist Kurds(PKK) who wants to destory the union

Well, we might be related then -  some family on mother's side came from Khazakstan, 140 years ago -  ethnic Turks that had converted to Judaism milllenia ago, around the 700s. Also, Rum here (Rumanian), Polish, Russian, Czech and German.

 

swhitebull

 

From LittleGreenFootballs.com: 

Media Blackout Continues: "I Shot the Infidel"

The media are still pushing the “Turkish nationalist” angle in the assassination of Armenian editor Hrant Dink, as if “Turkish nationalism” were completely unconnected to its Islamic roots: Teen ‘shot editor for insulting Turks’.

AN unemployed teenager has told investigators he shot dead editor Hrant Dink because he had insulted Turks, it was reported today.

Police caught Ogun Samast, 17, carrying a gun at a bus station in the Black Sea coastal town of Samsun overnight, a day after the Turkish-Armenian Dink was shot in broad daylight outside his newspaper office in Istanbul.

“I read on the Internet that he (Dink) said ‘I am from Turkey but Turkish blood is dirty’ and I decided to kill him ... I do not regret this,” CNN Turk quoted Samast as saying.

Why do I have this sneaking suspicion that Samast’s statements are not being fully reported?

As we noted yesterday, initial stories about the shooting included a quote from an eyewitness who said Samast had shouted, “I shot the infidel!” Reuters themselves had this quote, but it was edited out of later versions.

Here’s an interesting little experiment with Google News, which indexes many of the world’s media outlets (legitimate, illegitimate, and insane).

A search for the murdered editor’s name returns more than 1,300 results: hrant dink - Google News.

But a search for “I shot the non-Muslim” (as Reuters originally reported it) returns only 21 results, all early reports in Australian or other non-US sources: 'i shot the non-muslim' - Google News.

And a search for “I shot the infidel” returns ... 2 results, both to the same article at the Telegraph: 'i shot the infidel' - Google News.

Note that I’m not claiming the shooting was strictly for purposes of jihad. Samast obviously was motivated to some extent by Dink’s remarks criticizing Turkey for the Armenian jihad/genocide.

But on the other hand, there seems to be a universal agreement among the wire services and major US newspapers to ignore the eyewitness’s quote?even editing it out of later versions of the same article.

It’s a whitewash.

And here’s another early version of the Reuters report, with the quote, still posted at their Canadian web site: Turkish-Armenian editor shot dead in Istanbul.

NTV television said Dink, a Turkish citizen of Armenian descent, had been shot three times in the head and neck.

Muharrem Gozutok, owner of a restaurant near the Agos office, said the assailant looked about 20, wore jeans and a cap and shouted “I shot the non-Muslim” as he left the scene.

If the quote was mis-reported, the context is important enough that I’d expect articles to contain something like this: “Early reports that the attacker shouted ‘I shot the non-Muslim’ were unverified.”

Instead, the quote simply vanished.

UPDATE at 1/21/07 10:51:21 am:

Support for the jihad angle, from a Turkish web site: Police identify suspected killer of Turkish journalist. (Hat tip: Abu Maven.)

Police have identified the suspected killer of journalist Hrant Dink, acting on a tip from the suspect’s father, private NTV television reported Saturday. A police official speaking on condition of anonymity confirmed that police were seeking a man by the name of Ogun Samas, but would not give further information.

Samas was reportedly from the Black Sea city of Trabzon. A photograph, allegedly of Samas holding a gun while running away from Dink after the attack Friday, had been released to the public. Istanbul Gov. Muammer Guler said Dink’s secretary also had identified the man in the photograph as the same man who had entered the newspaper’s office and requested a meeting with Dink around noon on the day he was killed.

The suspect allegedly said he was a student at Ankara University. NTV reported that the suspect’s father and 10 other people were detained by police in Trabzon.

It said Samas was friends with Yasin Hayal, a young man charged in 2004 with bombing a McDonald’s restaurant in Trabzon. Hayal was alleged to be an Islamic militant and said he learned to make bombs from Chechen militants at a camp in Azerbaijan. The bomb injured six passers-by and was apparently an attack aimed at punishing the United States.

And in today’s New York Times, more evidence of jihad (although the Times doesn’t connect the dots): Turkish Police Arrest Teenage Suspect in Editor’s Killing.

The police are also looking into possible links between Mr. Samast and the killing of a Catholic priest, Andrea Santaro, last February. The assailant was a 16-year-old who, like the priest and Mr. Samast, was from Trabzon.

(Father Andrea Santaro was murdered during the height of the Danish cartoon madness, and his killer shouted “Allahu Akbar!”)

UPDATE at 1/21/07 10:57:35 am:

At AFP, an article (in which the I word and the M word do not appear) indirectly acknowledges Samast is a Muslim: Turkish teenager confesses to killing journalist.

“I shot him after saying the Friday prayers. I’m not sorry,” the CNN Turk news channel quoted him as saying in his testimony.

 

swhitebull

swhitebull,

 

A Turkish citizen who is in fairly good health (mentally, physically and socially) would NEVER put her country in jeapardy. I am not saying it was planned by Armenians or anyone else who hates Turkiye, but that guy is only what 17, 18? He is brainwashed, isn't it obvious? And why is it fishy for him to get caught so quick? His father was smart enough to hand him to the police even though that was his own son. That was the right thing to do so he did it.

 

Read this:

Wow Swhitebull congratulations on finding another way to bash Islam

First of all no one in Turkey thinks this is a simple nationalist or extreme islamic guys attack
Most of the um...well educated people thinks this is something deeper just like assasination of Ugur Mumcu or other people who plays a lot with secrets
Some thinks this is a simple fascist(well these guys are currently happy of his death)
Some thinks he is  a simple extremereligious(cultist) guy who is aganist secularism.There were several attacks aganist secularism in the last 30 years
Some thinks this is done by outher powers to stop Turkey from joning EU or to make it lose prestige(well we sure lost)
Some thinks he is working for Armenia-the aim of the assasination was to show Turks as killers,to make us seem like we're killing people who do not agree us
or maybe it was because of other political reasons
These are all conspiracies but as I said it's not a simple thing

Since this not a good thing for Turkey at all,a person who loves this country WOULDN'T do such a thing

Oh and no one in Turkey(except fascists-low number) is happy because of this
We lost a democracy defender

And the way media shows this to world,well it's urely wrong or details are wrong!