The leader of Turkey’s Republican People’s Party blames the country’s authorities for Armenian journalist Hrant Dink’s murder.

“Those guilty of Dink’s murder were promoted, some became ministers and parliamentarians. This kind of outrage has no place in the 21st century Turkey. A person got killed in broad daylight: the authorities, though aware that a murder attempt was being readied, took no action to prevent it,” Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said.

As he noted, following the murder, Turkish leadership is now trying to shift the blame on several people and close the case. “We cannot accept this. Dink was a Turkish citizen. A state claiming to be a law and democracy champion must find the perpetrators. Refusal to do so makes it an accomplice to the crime,” Kılıçdaroğlu said in an interview with Taraf daily.

The top oppositionist also accused the authorities of inconsistence in organizing hearings in the Dink murder case.