European Court finds Turkey guilty in Dink case, imposing 161,000 Euros in compensation

The European Court of Human Rights found the Turkish state guilty in the case involving the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, CNNTurk broadcasted on Tuesday.

The case at the European court was initially investigating the conviction of Dink for allegedly insulting Turkishness in his column in the weekly Agos. The journalist had brought the case against the Turkish state to the European court.

Dink was murdered by an ultranationalist minor in front of his newspaper's building in Istanbul in 2007; however, the man's family opened an additional case at the high court, accusing the Turkish state of failing to protect the journalist's right to life.

The two cases were later merged.

The court found the Turkish state guilty on two charges, sentencing the state to pay 133,595 Euros to Dink's family in compensation and an extra payment of 28,595 Euros to the court for expenditures.