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    TURKISH OFFICER DENIES ANY INFORMATION ON JOURNALIST MURDER

    Hurriyet
    July 21 2008
    Turkey


    An officer of the Turkish army rejected Monday the claims of being
    informed prior to the assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist
    Hrant Dink.

    "I don't remember any document regarding the assassination of Hrant
    Dink," Colonel Ali Oz, the gendarmerie field officer of Trabzon at
    the time of incident said in his interrogation in the northwestern
    province of Bursa.

    Oz and Captain Metin Yildiz claimed for failing to act on information
    received prior to the assassination. Turkey's northeastern province
    Trabzon governor's office gave the permission for the investigation
    after assessing a report of the inspectors from the Turkish Interior
    Ministry on Sunday.

    Dink, editor in chief of Agos newspaper, was shot dead outside the
    offices of the paper in Istanbul in January, 2007. Police arrested
    the gunman and a suspected associate who was identified as Yasin Hayal.

    The trial began in July 2007. Prosecutors have asked for a prison term
    of 18 to 24 years for Dink's assassin Ogun Samast and life sentences
    for two key suspects, Erhan Tuncel and Hayal for inciting to murder.
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