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TRABZON COURT REQUESTS MERGER OF HRANT DINK CASES
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Oct 3 2013
TRABZON - Dogan News Agency
A Trabzon court has asked for the merging of a case against
a gendarmerie commander on charges of neglect of duty over the
assassination of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, with the
main trial in Istanbul.
Ali Oz, who was Gendarmerie Commander of the Black Sea province of
Trabzon during the killing of the late journalist, was sentenced
to six months in prison. However, as the Supreme Court of Appeals
reversed the decision, he was put in another trial in Trabzon.
In addition to Oz, seven soldiers at his command had also been charged
with prison sentences.
Oz was accused of not informing authorities that the crime organization
founded by Yasin Hayal, who was charged with being the instigator of
the assassination, and his friends were going to commit the crime,
despite learning it in 2006. He was also facing charges of forging
documents to pretend to have only obtained the information after
the incident.
Dink, the renowned editor-in-chief of Agos, was shot by triggerman
Ogun Samast in front of his office in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007.
In the hearing as part of the new case opened in Trabzon, the suspects'
hometown, against Oz, the court delayed the hearing requesting
the merger of the Oz case with the main case into Dink's slaying
in Istanbul.
The interim decision of the court said: "Ali Oz didn't take legal
action despite receiving the intelligence information that the crime
organization founded by Yasin Hayal and his friends was preparing for
the assassination. As there is the possibility of serving or aiding
and the need of the detection of the organization's structure and
operations, it has been decided that it would be more appropriate
for the case to be tried with the case at Istanbul 14th High Criminal
Court."
The main Dink trial resumed on Sept. 17 as the Supreme Court of
Appeals verdict defined the acts of all suspects in the case under
"an organization formed to commit crime."
Dink's family and his supporters rejected the premise of the retrial
that the defendants were part of a criminal conspiracy and argued
that the state was involved in what amounted to a terrorist conspiracy.
October/03/2013
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/trabzon-court-requests-merger-of-hrant-dink-cases-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=55646&NewsCatID=338
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Oct 3 2013
TRABZON - Dogan News Agency
A Trabzon court has asked for the merging of a case against
a gendarmerie commander on charges of neglect of duty over the
assassination of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, with the
main trial in Istanbul.
Ali Oz, who was Gendarmerie Commander of the Black Sea province of
Trabzon during the killing of the late journalist, was sentenced
to six months in prison. However, as the Supreme Court of Appeals
reversed the decision, he was put in another trial in Trabzon.
In addition to Oz, seven soldiers at his command had also been charged
with prison sentences.
Oz was accused of not informing authorities that the crime organization
founded by Yasin Hayal, who was charged with being the instigator of
the assassination, and his friends were going to commit the crime,
despite learning it in 2006. He was also facing charges of forging
documents to pretend to have only obtained the information after
the incident.
Dink, the renowned editor-in-chief of Agos, was shot by triggerman
Ogun Samast in front of his office in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007.
In the hearing as part of the new case opened in Trabzon, the suspects'
hometown, against Oz, the court delayed the hearing requesting
the merger of the Oz case with the main case into Dink's slaying
in Istanbul.
The interim decision of the court said: "Ali Oz didn't take legal
action despite receiving the intelligence information that the crime
organization founded by Yasin Hayal and his friends was preparing for
the assassination. As there is the possibility of serving or aiding
and the need of the detection of the organization's structure and
operations, it has been decided that it would be more appropriate
for the case to be tried with the case at Istanbul 14th High Criminal
Court."
The main Dink trial resumed on Sept. 17 as the Supreme Court of
Appeals verdict defined the acts of all suspects in the case under
"an organization formed to commit crime."
Dink's family and his supporters rejected the premise of the retrial
that the defendants were part of a criminal conspiracy and argued
that the state was involved in what amounted to a terrorist conspiracy.
October/03/2013
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/trabzon-court-requests-merger-of-hrant-dink-cases-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=55646&NewsCatID=338