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DINK LAWYERS ARGUE PHONE RECORDS SENT ARE INADEQUATE
Hurriyet Daily News
Dec 5 2011
Turkey
The Dink family's lawyers yesterday said phone records pertaining
to the assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink were
inadequate.
The records were recently sent to court by Turkey's Telecommunications
Directorate (TÄ°B) after months of dawdling.
Records sent by the TÄ°B cover only a limited area in the vicinity
of the crime scene, lawyer Fethiye Cetin said, adding that they had
requested all records from an area measuring 500 meters long.
"The TÄ°B records are in the thousands. It will take time to go through
all these. We are going to present our statements regarding the issue
after we are done examining and scrutinizing," she said.
The TÄ°B had initially refused to comply with a court request to
deliver the records, claiming the demand would amount to "violation of
privacy." In recent months, the TÄ°B had continued dragging its feet
by advancing further objections to the request to obtain the records.
The TÄ°B finally agreed to the court's request and sent the records
last week.
The Dink family's lawyers said in court yesterday that the roles
played by all officials implicated in Hrant Dink's assassination had
been exposed, from the Chief of Staff to the government, media and
the judiciary. The concerted harmony in which these officials acted
after the incident indicated the whole affair was coordinated from
a single center, they said.
The case was postponed to Dec. 26 for further investigation into the
phone records.
A group of demonstrators gathered in BeÅ~_iktaÅ~_ and marched
toward the Istanbul Courthouse yesterday, protesting the failure of
authorities to bring the case to a resolution.
Dink, a Turkish journalist of Armenian origin, was the chief editor
for weekly Agos, a paper published in both Turkish and Armenian. He
was shot in front of his office in January 2007; triggerman Ogun
Samast was sentenced to 22 years in prison last month for the murder.
Hurriyet Daily News
Dec 5 2011
Turkey
The Dink family's lawyers yesterday said phone records pertaining
to the assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink were
inadequate.
The records were recently sent to court by Turkey's Telecommunications
Directorate (TÄ°B) after months of dawdling.
Records sent by the TÄ°B cover only a limited area in the vicinity
of the crime scene, lawyer Fethiye Cetin said, adding that they had
requested all records from an area measuring 500 meters long.
"The TÄ°B records are in the thousands. It will take time to go through
all these. We are going to present our statements regarding the issue
after we are done examining and scrutinizing," she said.
The TÄ°B had initially refused to comply with a court request to
deliver the records, claiming the demand would amount to "violation of
privacy." In recent months, the TÄ°B had continued dragging its feet
by advancing further objections to the request to obtain the records.
The TÄ°B finally agreed to the court's request and sent the records
last week.
The Dink family's lawyers said in court yesterday that the roles
played by all officials implicated in Hrant Dink's assassination had
been exposed, from the Chief of Staff to the government, media and
the judiciary. The concerted harmony in which these officials acted
after the incident indicated the whole affair was coordinated from
a single center, they said.
The case was postponed to Dec. 26 for further investigation into the
phone records.
A group of demonstrators gathered in BeÅ~_iktaÅ~_ and marched
toward the Istanbul Courthouse yesterday, protesting the failure of
authorities to bring the case to a resolution.
Dink, a Turkish journalist of Armenian origin, was the chief editor
for weekly Agos, a paper published in both Turkish and Armenian. He
was shot in front of his office in January 2007; triggerman Ogun
Samast was sentenced to 22 years in prison last month for the murder.