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    JUDGE, PROSECUTOR IN HRANT DINK CASE FACE PROBE AFTER CLASH OVER VERDICT

    epress.am
    01.26.2012

    Turkey's top judicial council ordered an investigation of the judge
    and prosecutor in the recently concluded Hrant Dink murder case
    on Wednesday after they publicly clashed over the verdict, Today's
    Zaman reported.

    In a statement on Wednesday, the Supreme Board of Judges and
    Prosecutors (HSYK) said an investigation has been launched into Rustem
    Eryılmaz and Hikmet Usta after publication in the media of several
    news articles concerning their statements about the Dink case. It
    was not immediately clear whether they face any legal sanctions.

    Ending the five-year trial, the İstanbul 14th High Criminal
    Court sentenced suspect Yasin Hayal to life imprisonment for his
    role in the 2007 killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist Dink, but
    acquitted 19 defendants charged with being part of a terrorist group,
    sparking outrage among the family's lawyers as well as politicians
    and intellectuals who say the murder was part of a bigger conspiracy
    that involved state bureaucrats.

    In remarks published soon after the ruling, the presiding judge of
    the İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court, Rustem Eryılmaz, said while
    he personally cannot deny the murder was well-organized, the evidence
    submitted to the court was not sufficient to issue a ruling that it
    was an organized crime.

    In a rare public exchange, Prosecutor Hikmet Usta swiftly responded to
    the judge's statement, saying in a two-page long petition as part of
    his appeal of the Jan. 17 verdict that there was plenty of evidence
    to establish the murder was the result of efforts by an organized
    criminal group.


    From: Baghdasarian
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