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Turkey focuses on friendly settlement regarding Dink case
Ahmet Davutoğlu said Turkey was planning to take some steps to handle several issues, particularly the Dink case, in line with contemporary and universal law.
"We are particularly thinking of a friendly settlement," Davutoğlu told a televised interview.
Davutoğlu said the file submitted to the ECHR regarding Dink included to claims, one of which was related with right to life and the other, freedom of expression.
"The state has to fulfil all its responsibilities regarding right to life and freedom of speech without any discussion," Davutoğlu said.
Davutoğlu said Turkey had to take steps to broaden freedom of expression.
52-year-old Dink was shot dead outside his newspaper's offices in Istanbul on January 19, 2007.
On the terrorist organization PKK, Davutoğlu said one could not continue terrorist attacks and use democratic concepts at the same time.
Davutoğlu also said the Peace & Democracy Party (BDP) knew it could not reject to the upcoming referendum as the package to be voted was a libertarian, but it thought that saying "yes" would weaken its political power and therefore preferred to boycott the referendum.
"We cannot talk about democracy under the shadow of weapons, and therefore they should assume a clear attitude," Davutoğlu also said.
Turkey is set to vote a constitutional amendment package on September 12.
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