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    BÄ°A, Turkey
    Aug 23 2008



    Police Investigates Osman Hayal 19 Months After Dink's Murder


    It has been suspected all along that Ogün Smast, Hrant Dink's
    killer, was not alone at the scene on the day of the murder. Now the
    police is considering the possibility that Osman Hayal, Yasin Hayal's
    brother, may have accompanied Ogün Samast on that day.

    Bia news center - Trabzon-Ä°stanbul
    22-08-2008


    Istanbul' s 14th High Criminal Court asked for additional time to keep
    Osman Hayal in custody in connection with the murder of Hrant
    Dink. Osman Hayal is brother of the alleged instigator of the murder
    case, Yasin Hayal.

    Osman Hayal was brought to Istanbul from Tarabzon's Pelitli region two
    days ago on August 20. He was confronted with the eye witnesses and
    will be taken to the court after his initial questioning at the Polic
    Department is completed (August 23).

    Cinmen: If all the responsible parties not punished then the murder
    will stay as an unsolved murder

    Commenting about the latest developments to the NTV, Ergin Cinmen, one
    of the lawyers of the Dink Family, said that the findings that had
    shown Osman Hayal's telephone had been giving a signal from Istanbul
    on the day of the murder need to be investigated thoroughly.

    Moreover, Cinmen stated that if all those parties in Istanbul and
    Trabzon Police Departments, Trabzon Gendarmerie, and the Police
    Intelligent Department were not punished for their responsibility and
    negligence in the murder, then the case would stay as an unsolved
    murder.

    Osman Hayal had claimed that he was in Trabzon on the day of the
    murder, but his telephone had given signal from
    Kısıklı, Istanbul on the same day. The reports in
    the media had also claimed that Osman Hayal was in Istanbul on the day
    of the murder. Osman Hayal had been denying this so far.

    `The real perpetrators are outside, find them'

    Osman Hayal had reacted in the statement he had given to the Trabzon
    newspaper Ä°lkbahar on January 2008 to the reports that had
    appeared in the media that he was in Istanbul on the day of the
    murder. He had defended himself using Rakel Dink's words `Those who
    make murderers out of babies'.

    `Enough, I wish they do not mess with us anymore. They are trying to
    distort it. The real perpetrators are outside. Have them find the real
    perpetrator who makes murderers out of babies.'

    Police took Osman Hayal into custody after nineteen months

    The images broadcasted by Show TV a while ago had shown an individual
    talking on his phone with his back turned to the Agos building and
    looking occasionally at someone near the building. Later, the same
    person is seen watching, with another individual, Ogün Samast's
    running away from the scene and they too disappear in a construction
    site.

    The identities of these people are still not known. The police is
    looking into the possibility that whether or not Osman Hayal might
    have accompanied the actual shooter, Ogün Samast, on the day of
    the murder, January 19, 2007. They are looking agains at the security
    cameras of the bank near the murder scene. (EÃ-/EZÃ-/TB)
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