TODAY'S ZAMAN
Turkey saw hearings for two separate but related crimes yesterday as the third trial in the murder of an ethnic Armenian journalist in İstanbul and the suspects of the murders of three Bible publishers in Malatya resumed yesterday, but neither trial has been a source of encouragement for those hoping to see justice done in the end.
The third hearing of the trial in the murder of three Christians, one of them a German citizen, in the eastern Turkish province of Malatya last year convened at the Malatya 3rd High Criminal Court at 9 a.m. yesterday.
Lawyers in the case demanded that the hearing be recorded with visual and audio devices, a demand the court rejected. After the rejection of the request, the lawyers this time asked that the judge be removed, saying that the court's impartiality and independence was now jeopardized by the denial.
The court adjourned the case until March 17, 2008 to review the request.
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