A Turkish appeals court ruled Wednesday that the killers of an ethnic Armenian journalist did not act alone but were part of a criminal conspiracy. “We have strong evidence that state officials were involved in the conspiracy, and that evidence is even in the prosecutor’s report,” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/world/europe/turkish-court-sees-conspiracy-in-the-journalist-hrant-dinks-death.html?ref=world  The journalist was shot to death in broad daylight outside the offices of his newspaper, Agos, in central Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007. The killing led to suspicions of a deep-rooted conspiracy in a country that has seen dozens of political murders.The journalist was an outspoken critic of government policies toward Turkey’s roughly 60,000 Christian Armenians and of its diplomatic standoff with neighboring Armenia.