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    GREEN LIGHT FOR RETRIAL OF DINK MURDER

    Hurriyet
    March 30 2012
    Turkey

    A prosecutor has appealed the ruling in the Hrant Dink murder trial,
    arguing that the crime was an organized hit.

    "The suspects acted as a cell in Trabzon with the same aims as the
    Ergenekon crime gang," the prosecutor said in his 30-page appeal
    against the January court ruling, adding that the suspects should be
    punished for committing an organized act of crime.

    Dink was the chief editor for weekly Agos, a newspaper published in
    Turkish and Armenian. He was shot dead in front of his office on Jan.

    19, 2007, in Istanbul. Triggerman Ogun Samast was sentenced to 22
    years in prison for the murder last year. Instigator Yasin Hayal was
    sentenced on Jan. 17 to aggravated life imprisonment, while former
    police informant and suspect Erhan Tuncel was released, prompting
    widespread anger.

    In its ruling, the court argued that there was not enough evidence
    indicating the existence of an organization behind the crime despite
    lingering doubts.

    "If the court accepts the existence of an organization behind the
    crime but lacks the evidence, it should have asked the prosecutor's
    office for further investigation into the issue," the prosecutor said
    in his appeal.

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