Trial of Turkish-Armenian journalist&#39;s murder opens amid protests
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Eighteen suspects went on trial here Monday for the January murder of ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, which has sparked fears of rising nationalist violence in Turkey.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey  - Turkish state prosecutors opened an investigation on Monday into Masoud Barzani, head of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, whom Ankara suspects of supporting Turkish Kurdish rebels.
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Thousands of people turned out on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, gunned down in Istanbul outside the cross-cultural newspaper he created.
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The trial of radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Ba&#39;asyir on charges of planning and/or inciting terrorist bombings has begun in Jakarta.
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The trial of an Afghan man charged conspiring to kidnap and torture in Afghanistan begins at the Old Bailey.
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Thousands protested in Armenia's capital on Wednesday against a presidential election they said was rigged in favor of Prime Minister Serzh Sarksyan, but Western observers called it broadly fair.
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The first international war crimes  trial of Kosovo Albanians began on Monday, with three former  rebels accused of abducting and murdering suspected  collaborators and Serb civilians during the 1998-99 conflict.
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The Christian Science Monitor - &#8226;&#9;Monday, July 2: Istanbul, Turkey: Trial begins of suspects accused of killing Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was an advocate of minority rights and free speech.  Strasbourg, France: French President Nicolas Sarkozy convenes public rally about Europe&#39;s future.  Accra, Ghana: African Union summit focuses on economic integration and Libyan proposal for a president for Africa.
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The landmark trial of a Rwandan Roman Catholic priest accused of supervising the massacre of 2,000 of his Tutsi parishioners during the central African country's 1994 genocide opens at a UN court in Tanzania.
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Protestors clash at a Kenya court where the case of a doctor charged with murdering a foetus began.
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Turkish author Ipek Calislar goes on trial accused of insulting Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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Abu Bakar Ba'asyir goes on trial in connection with the 2002 Bali bombings and other attacks.
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During today&#39;s European Union (EU) summit, a group of Armenians held a protest around the EU Council building in Brussels. According to the police, nearly, 2,300 Armenians demanded Turkey to recognize genocide allegations.
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A new trial on corruption charges against former Premier Silvio Berlusconi opened Tuesday, just as the opposition leader is seeking to capitalize on weaknesses in the governing coalition to get back into power.
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ZAGREB * The war crimes trial of two former Croatian generals opened in Zagreb yesterday, marking an important test of the Balkan country's suitability for eventual membership of the European Union . via The Peninsula
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A Turkish court has decided to broaden the investigation into the killing of an ethnic Armenian journalist to consider allegations of official negligence in the slaying, a lawyer said Tuesday.
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ISTANBUL -- In a new case pitting free speech against Turkish nationalists, a young novelist is due in court here this week to defend herself against charges that she insulted ``Turkishness" because a character in her newest book, ``The Bastard of Istanbul," refers to the deaths of Armenians in 1915 as genocide.