There's a Devil in the woodpile.

In France they call the car-be-cue teens disaffected youth. In Turkey, they are calling them "inactive youth", I guess. I don't care what you call them Officer Krupke, but these days anywhere you find an assassination, a bombing, a beheading there's a Devil in the woodpile.

From the New Anatolian: OECD: Turkey's 'inactive' youth a time bomb
Turkey faces a gave threat from its swelling ranks of "inactive youth," warns a new Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development report. In the wake of the reported confession of a 17-year-old to the murder of journalist Hrant Dink, the report said that Turkey has too many young people at loose ends.

"Inactive youths are those between 15 and 19 who have no jobs and are not at school," the report said. "In most OECD countries less than 10 percent of those aged 15 to 19 are inactive. Rates in excess of 10 percent were recorded in Turkey, Mexico, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom."

Turkey is at the bottom of the list, as its percentage of inactive youth is 47.5 percent for women and around 25 percent for men.

Man, I didn't know that Turkey was that full of slackers! And the wimmen folk are definitely riding the back of the bus here, too. (Well, maybe not. It looks like they nabbed the assassin's girlfriend for something.)

Trabzon Governor Huseyin Yavuzdemir told a mass-circulation daily that police detained an 17-year-old girl who is said to be the girlfriend of Dink's killer Ogun Samast, along with a man. He said police may detain more teens in connection with the murder."

This admission is stunning:
"Security measures alone cannot solve the problem, and there are many Oguns living here," he said. "Parents don't pay enough attention to their children. Unemployment causes teenagers to join gangs. As the region gave many martyrs to this nation, nationalist sentiments were rising in Trabzon. We cannot follow a young man without legal permits, and that is why the police didn't monitor Yasin Hayal, who spent 11 months in jail for a 2004 bomb blast outside a McDonald's, and was detained over the murder of journalist Hrant Dink."

This Yasin Hayal is the punk who hollered out threats to another journo, Orhan Pamuk during his court appearance. Who is Orhan Pamuk?
"Like Dink, Pamuk also stood trial on charges of insulting Turkishness after telling a foreign journal, "We killed 1 million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds and nobody but me dares to speak out." Pamuk's case was dropped on technicalities, with some describing it as a maneuver by the Justice Ministry in an attempt to avoid further European Union pressure, but at the same time to appease the Turkish public. Pamuk has reportedly been receiving death threats and in the wake of Dink's killing has been given close protection.

Never trust anyone who quotes Robert Fisk.
Motherland Party (ANAVATAN) leader Erkan Mumcu, speaking at a delayed party group meeting yesterday, branded the killing a plot to fabricate allegations against the Turkish people. "Certain circles try to create a Turkish profile of attacking innocent doves," said Mumcu, while also citing a column by Robert Fisk from the Independent who said Dink "made up" the figure 1.5 millions massacred Armenians."The plan was to create a fundamentalist Turk image," said the ANAVATAN leader quoting a remark by Dink himself branding Europeans the real reason for the hatred between Turks and Armenians.

Then there's this:
Also yesterday, a mass-circulation daily published a photo of ultranationalist Grand Unity Party (BBP) leader Muhsin Yazicioglu with Erhan Tuncel, the third man allegedly behind the murder, prompting the party to issue a denial.

And this "Grand Unity Party" they speak of? They were also rumored to have ties to the shooting of five judges in May of 2006. Why were the judges shot? Ruling against the hijab/curtain munchers.

Here's the Wiki entry which reads in part:
The alleged reasoning for the murder of Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin and wounding of four of his fellow judges was that they had previously voted against a Turkish school teacher being allowed to wear a traditional Islamic headscarf outside work.[2] One of the judges who was shot, voted in favour of allowing the teacher to wear a headscarf outside of work, while the other judges who were wounded, voted against.[1]

According to local news reports, the judges were in the midst of a daily meeting in the capital, when the gunman, who was later identified as a lawyer, burst into the room and fired his weapon. Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead later that day in a hospital in Ankara. Police captured the gunman as he tried to escape. According to witnesses, the lawyer shouted, "Allahu Akbar (God is the greatest). His anger will be upon you!"[1]

Here's your woodpile. (Tip of the hat to Gateway Pundit.)

I hate to say "I told you so', but didn't I say that this punk was chosen because he wouldn't be subject to the harsh penalties an adult would? And that this is a time honored Muslim tradition? Here you go:

"According to Milliyet newspaper... after the arrest in Trabzon Hayal shouted out in the court, "I did it to punish Americans. I’ll get free in three years and will blow up HSBC Bank and the Russian Consulate."