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CASE-RELATED DOCS DISAPPEAR AFTER DINK MURDER
PanARMENIAN.Net
January 27, 2012 - 20:05 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey's Chamber of Control (DDK) has released a
50-page report, detailing the president-assigned investigation of
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink's murder case.
As it transpired, certain case-related documents disappeared
immediately after the murder, while other files were available only
as copies, with a date altered on some of those, Cumhuriyet reported.
Turkey's top judicial council ordered an investigation of the judge
and prosecutor in the recently concluded Hrant Dink murder case on
Wednesday, Jan 25, after they publicly clashed over the verdict.
In a statement, the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK)
said an investigation has been launched into EryÑ~Mlmaz and 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 Istanbul 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 Istanbul 14th High Criminal Court, RÑ~Lstem EryÑ~Mlmaz,
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.
PanARMENIAN.Net
January 27, 2012 - 20:05 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey's Chamber of Control (DDK) has released a
50-page report, detailing the president-assigned investigation of
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink's murder case.
As it transpired, certain case-related documents disappeared
immediately after the murder, while other files were available only
as copies, with a date altered on some of those, Cumhuriyet reported.
Turkey's top judicial council ordered an investigation of the judge
and prosecutor in the recently concluded Hrant Dink murder case on
Wednesday, Jan 25, after they publicly clashed over the verdict.
In a statement, the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK)
said an investigation has been launched into EryÑ~Mlmaz and 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 Istanbul 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 Istanbul 14th High Criminal Court, RÑ~Lstem EryÑ~Mlmaz,
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.