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COURT REQUESTS DINK DOCUMENTS FROM ANKARA PROSECUTORS
Today's Zaman, Turkey
May 3 2013
The Ä°stanbul 2nd High Criminal Juvenile Court, which is overseeing
the case into the murder of Hrank Dink, who was killed by an
ultranationalist teenager in January 2007, has requested documents
belonging to a plot to kill Dink, if any, from the Ankara Chief Public
Prosecutor's Office.
The documents were allegedly seized from the Special Forces Command
in 2010. The command was searched by a judge as part of an ongoing
probe into a suspected military plot to assassinate Deputy Prime
Minister Bulent Arınc. Following the search, claims emerged that the
judge found documents that mentioned a plot to kill Turkish-Armenian
journalist Dink.
Hakan Bakırcıoglu, one of the lawyers for the Dink family, reminded
the court about the claims, and in response, the presiding judge
decided to send a written communiqué to the Ankara Chief Public
Prosecutor's Office to ask if it possesses any such document seized
from the Special Forces Command detailing a plot to kill Dink, and
if it does, to send copies of them to the court.
Dink was gunned down in broad daylight on Jan. 17, 2007, by
ultranationalist Ogun Samast. Dink was the editor-in-chief of the
Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos at the time. Samast is being tried in
juvenile court because he was a minor at the time of the crime.
Also during Friday's hearing, another lawyer for the Dink family,
Fethiye Cetin, asked the court to hear the testimony of a secret
witness, who uses the codename BarıÅ~_. When testifying to prosecutors
involved in the Dink murder case, BarıÅ~_ claimed that the plot
to kill Dink had been devised by JÄ°TEM, an illegal and clandestine
network within the gendarmerie. Cetin said they believe the secret
witness is telling the truth.
The Dink murder shocked Turkey and the ensuing trial became mired in
controversy, with Dink's family and human rights activists arguing
that links between suspects in the case and the real masterminds of
the murder, suspected to be in the military and police force, were
not sufficiently investigated.
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-314444-court-requests-dink-documents-from-ankara-prosecutors.html
From: Baghdasarian
Today's Zaman, Turkey
May 3 2013
The Ä°stanbul 2nd High Criminal Juvenile Court, which is overseeing
the case into the murder of Hrank Dink, who was killed by an
ultranationalist teenager in January 2007, has requested documents
belonging to a plot to kill Dink, if any, from the Ankara Chief Public
Prosecutor's Office.
The documents were allegedly seized from the Special Forces Command
in 2010. The command was searched by a judge as part of an ongoing
probe into a suspected military plot to assassinate Deputy Prime
Minister Bulent Arınc. Following the search, claims emerged that the
judge found documents that mentioned a plot to kill Turkish-Armenian
journalist Dink.
Hakan Bakırcıoglu, one of the lawyers for the Dink family, reminded
the court about the claims, and in response, the presiding judge
decided to send a written communiqué to the Ankara Chief Public
Prosecutor's Office to ask if it possesses any such document seized
from the Special Forces Command detailing a plot to kill Dink, and
if it does, to send copies of them to the court.
Dink was gunned down in broad daylight on Jan. 17, 2007, by
ultranationalist Ogun Samast. Dink was the editor-in-chief of the
Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos at the time. Samast is being tried in
juvenile court because he was a minor at the time of the crime.
Also during Friday's hearing, another lawyer for the Dink family,
Fethiye Cetin, asked the court to hear the testimony of a secret
witness, who uses the codename BarıÅ~_. When testifying to prosecutors
involved in the Dink murder case, BarıÅ~_ claimed that the plot
to kill Dink had been devised by JÄ°TEM, an illegal and clandestine
network within the gendarmerie. Cetin said they believe the secret
witness is telling the truth.
The Dink murder shocked Turkey and the ensuing trial became mired in
controversy, with Dink's family and human rights activists arguing
that links between suspects in the case and the real masterminds of
the murder, suspected to be in the military and police force, were
not sufficiently investigated.
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-314444-court-requests-dink-documents-from-ankara-prosecutors.html
From: Baghdasarian