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DINK LAWYER STORMS OUT OF COURT IN PROTEST
Hurriyet Daily News
http://asbarez.com/98229/dink-lawyer-storms-out-of-court-in-protest/
Sep 20, 2011
Dink's body after being shot in January 2007
ISTANBUL (Hurriyet Daily News)-Hrant Dink's relatives and his family's
lawyers stormed out of the courtroom in protests Monday, when the chief
prosecutor requested to state his opinion on the case, claiming that
many of their requests had not been met over the course of the trials.
"Not an inch of progress has been made in five years. [The authorities]
do not want to investigate the truth behind this murder," said Fethiye
Cetin, a lawyer for the Dink family.
It was unacceptable for the judge to grant the prosecution permission
to issue his opinion before the collection of all the evidence,
Cetin said.
The family's lawyers had earlier demanded that the trial be merged with
the ongoing Ergenekon case but the request was rejected by the court.
However, on Monday, the chief prosecutor put forth the same theory
saying that Dink's assassination may be connected to the ongoing
Ergenekon coup-plot case, and requested life imprisonment for suspected
conspirators Yasin Hayal and Erhan Tuncel.
"The assassination of Hrant Dink is the latest assassination enacted
by the deep [state.] The suspects acted with ideological motivations.
The Turkish Republic and public order [were] the targets. There are
[reasons] to suspect that the murder is connected to the Ergenekon
organization," the chief prosecutor said.
From: A. Papazian
Hurriyet Daily News
http://asbarez.com/98229/dink-lawyer-storms-out-of-court-in-protest/
Sep 20, 2011
Dink's body after being shot in January 2007
ISTANBUL (Hurriyet Daily News)-Hrant Dink's relatives and his family's
lawyers stormed out of the courtroom in protests Monday, when the chief
prosecutor requested to state his opinion on the case, claiming that
many of their requests had not been met over the course of the trials.
"Not an inch of progress has been made in five years. [The authorities]
do not want to investigate the truth behind this murder," said Fethiye
Cetin, a lawyer for the Dink family.
It was unacceptable for the judge to grant the prosecution permission
to issue his opinion before the collection of all the evidence,
Cetin said.
The family's lawyers had earlier demanded that the trial be merged with
the ongoing Ergenekon case but the request was rejected by the court.
However, on Monday, the chief prosecutor put forth the same theory
saying that Dink's assassination may be connected to the ongoing
Ergenekon coup-plot case, and requested life imprisonment for suspected
conspirators Yasin Hayal and Erhan Tuncel.
"The assassination of Hrant Dink is the latest assassination enacted
by the deep [state.] The suspects acted with ideological motivations.
The Turkish Republic and public order [were] the targets. There are
[reasons] to suspect that the murder is connected to the Ergenekon
organization," the chief prosecutor said.
From: A. Papazian