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Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Feb 15 2013
Murdered journalist Dink's lawyers demand files from `cosmic room'
ISTANBUL
Slain Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink's family lawyers have
asked the Ankara Prosecutor's Office to demand information from an
investigation in the military's top-secret archives in Ankara, dubbed
the `cosmic room,' about Dink's murder, in the wake of a `surprising'
witness.
Cem Halavurt, one of the lawyers of the Dink family, told the Hürriyet
Daily News yesterday that after learning from the media reports that
files examined by the Mobilization Investigation Board, called the
`cosmic room,' related to an assassination attempt of Deputy Prime
Minister Bülent Arınç matched up with the report sent by the National
Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T) to Parliament on the issue.
`In the latest trial, we demanded the court ask the Mobilization
Investigation Board to provide documents about the murder of Hrant
Dink,' said Halavurt.
The lawyers' demand came as an inmate claiming to have information on
Dink's killers sent a letter to prosecutors.
The informant, who is said to be currently serving a prison sentence
in Turkey's Tokat province in Central Anatolia, offered documentation
relating to Dink's murder in his letter and agreed to cooperate in the
investigation provided the protection of his family was guaranteed by
authorities, DoÄ?an news agency reported Feb. 13. In the letter the
informant revealed the murder had been planned by a group he had been
a member of along with Erhan Tuncel, a former police informant and
suspect, later released following the trial. Daily Radikal provided
the details of the letter yesterday in which the informants also
claimed that he had information on other crimes such as the murder of
Father Andrea Santoro in Trabzon.
In 2006 Father Andrea Santoro of the Catholic Church of Santa Maria in
Trabzon was murdered. One year later, Dink, editor-in-chief of
Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos, was murdered in Istanbul on Jan. 19.
The informant claimed Tuncel told him that `we have buried Father
Santoro,' during one of their conversations. The informant also said
he and Tuncel had been planning to assassinate the priest at Hagia
Yorgi located on Büyükada, the biggest island of the Princes' Islands.
Halavurt said the prosecutors are evaluating the informant's demand
and that they were hoping that the informant's claims may shed light
on the murder of Dink.
He also criticized the leak of the letter to the media, saying that it
might affect the case and may dissuade the informant from making more
confessions.
February/15/2013
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/murdered-journalist-dinks-lawyers-demand-files-from-cosmic-room.aspx?pageID=238&nID=41231&NewsCatID=341
Feb 15 2013
Murdered journalist Dink's lawyers demand files from `cosmic room'
ISTANBUL
Slain Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink's family lawyers have
asked the Ankara Prosecutor's Office to demand information from an
investigation in the military's top-secret archives in Ankara, dubbed
the `cosmic room,' about Dink's murder, in the wake of a `surprising'
witness.
Cem Halavurt, one of the lawyers of the Dink family, told the Hürriyet
Daily News yesterday that after learning from the media reports that
files examined by the Mobilization Investigation Board, called the
`cosmic room,' related to an assassination attempt of Deputy Prime
Minister Bülent Arınç matched up with the report sent by the National
Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T) to Parliament on the issue.
`In the latest trial, we demanded the court ask the Mobilization
Investigation Board to provide documents about the murder of Hrant
Dink,' said Halavurt.
The lawyers' demand came as an inmate claiming to have information on
Dink's killers sent a letter to prosecutors.
The informant, who is said to be currently serving a prison sentence
in Turkey's Tokat province in Central Anatolia, offered documentation
relating to Dink's murder in his letter and agreed to cooperate in the
investigation provided the protection of his family was guaranteed by
authorities, DoÄ?an news agency reported Feb. 13. In the letter the
informant revealed the murder had been planned by a group he had been
a member of along with Erhan Tuncel, a former police informant and
suspect, later released following the trial. Daily Radikal provided
the details of the letter yesterday in which the informants also
claimed that he had information on other crimes such as the murder of
Father Andrea Santoro in Trabzon.
In 2006 Father Andrea Santoro of the Catholic Church of Santa Maria in
Trabzon was murdered. One year later, Dink, editor-in-chief of
Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos, was murdered in Istanbul on Jan. 19.
The informant claimed Tuncel told him that `we have buried Father
Santoro,' during one of their conversations. The informant also said
he and Tuncel had been planning to assassinate the priest at Hagia
Yorgi located on Büyükada, the biggest island of the Princes' Islands.
Halavurt said the prosecutors are evaluating the informant's demand
and that they were hoping that the informant's claims may shed light
on the murder of Dink.
He also criticized the leak of the letter to the media, saying that it
might affect the case and may dissuade the informant from making more
confessions.
February/15/2013
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/murdered-journalist-dinks-lawyers-demand-files-from-cosmic-room.aspx?pageID=238&nID=41231&NewsCatID=341