ANKARA. - During the Turkish parliament's hearings on the proposal for fight against the financing of terrorism, the Kurdish "Peace and Democracy Party" (BDP) MP Sirri Sureyya Onder reflected on the court ruling on the case of Hrant Dink, the founder and former chief editor of Istanbul's Agos Armenian weekly, who was killed in 2007.
"The person [Erhan Tuncel] who was punished in the trial was punished for placing a bomb in a hamburger-selling company [McDonald's]. In Turkey, the life of an Armenian citizen is not as important as an American company that sells hamburgers. You cannot touch a hamburger seller, but you can kill an Armenian," Sirri Sureyya Onder said, Turkish Haberx news agency informs.
To note, Erhan Tuncel was found not guilty of prompting Dink's murder, and, instead, he was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months for an explosion in a McDonald's store. But taking into account that Tuncel was already incarcerated for that amount of time, the court had ruled his release.
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