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LOCAL COURT MERGES COL. OZ TRIAL WITH DINK CASE
Today's Zaman, Turkey
Oct 3 2013
3 October 2013 /TODAY'S ZAMAN, ANKARA
Col. Ali Oz -- who was sentenced to six months in prison on charges of
neglect by omission in the 2007 murder of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief
of the Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos -- is being retried as a local
court in İstanbul has asked for a merger of Oz's case with Dink's
murder case.
A case was filed against seven soldiers and Oz, who was the commander
of the Trabzon Gendarmerie Battalion at the time when Dink's killers
were conspiring to murder him, on charges of "neglecting duty and
forging documents," at the Trabzon 2nd Court of Peace.
Another case was also filed against Oz at the Trabzon 1st High Criminal
Court with the same accusations, but the high criminal court didn't
accept the case on the grounds that two cases could not charge a
suspect with the same crime.
At the request of the Dink family, the 5th Penal Chamber of the Court
of Appeals decided to have the colonel's retrial at the Trabzon 1st
High Criminal Court. The court demanded the merging of the case with
Dink's murder case in İstanbul and postponed the court proceedings.
Dink was shot and killed in broad daylight on Jan. 19, 2007 by an
ultranationalist teenager outside the offices of his newspaper in
İstanbul. Evidence discovered since then has led to claims that the
murder was linked to the "deep state," a term used in reference to
a shady group of military and civilian bureaucrats believed to have
links to criminal elements.
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-328074-local-court-merges-col-oz-trial-with-dink-case.html
Today's Zaman, Turkey
Oct 3 2013
3 October 2013 /TODAY'S ZAMAN, ANKARA
Col. Ali Oz -- who was sentenced to six months in prison on charges of
neglect by omission in the 2007 murder of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief
of the Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos -- is being retried as a local
court in İstanbul has asked for a merger of Oz's case with Dink's
murder case.
A case was filed against seven soldiers and Oz, who was the commander
of the Trabzon Gendarmerie Battalion at the time when Dink's killers
were conspiring to murder him, on charges of "neglecting duty and
forging documents," at the Trabzon 2nd Court of Peace.
Another case was also filed against Oz at the Trabzon 1st High Criminal
Court with the same accusations, but the high criminal court didn't
accept the case on the grounds that two cases could not charge a
suspect with the same crime.
At the request of the Dink family, the 5th Penal Chamber of the Court
of Appeals decided to have the colonel's retrial at the Trabzon 1st
High Criminal Court. The court demanded the merging of the case with
Dink's murder case in İstanbul and postponed the court proceedings.
Dink was shot and killed in broad daylight on Jan. 19, 2007 by an
ultranationalist teenager outside the offices of his newspaper in
İstanbul. Evidence discovered since then has led to claims that the
murder was linked to the "deep state," a term used in reference to
a shady group of military and civilian bureaucrats believed to have
links to criminal elements.
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-328074-local-court-merges-col-oz-trial-with-dink-case.html