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    DINK MURDER SUSPECT TUNCEL MET POPE'S ASSASSIN AGCA

    http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/10/25/dink-murder-suspect-tuncel-met-popes-assassin-agca/
    15:51 25.10.2013

    Hrant Dink

    Erhan Tuncel, the suspected instigator of the murder of
    Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, recently met with Mehmet Ali
    Agca, who attempted to assassinate the late Pope John Paul II in 1981.

    Tuncel was fugitive at the time but "hiding" in Istanbul's coastal town
    of Kumburgaz, although locals and police were aware of his identity,
    the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

    Tuncel, who was arrested by Istanbul's 14th High Criminal Court
    on Oct. 24, first met Agca in a café during his recent period in
    hiding and told him, "I am one of your biggest fans," according to
    an eyewitness whose name was kept anonymous by the daily.

    The duo then met on a number of subsequent occasions in the same place,
    witnesses said.

    The cafe by the sea was being managed by Tuncel's fellow townsmen from
    the southeastern Turkish province of Elazıg, and Tuncel generally
    spent his days in Kumburgaz reading books by the sea, according
    to reports.

    Agca and Tuncel had "long hours of talks" at the café, according to
    the witness.

    "He had two mobile phones, his cigarettes and books. He would not
    talk too much. We would see him talking to his fellow townsmen from
    Elazıg and occasionally with the police. Policemen would call him 'Mr.

    Erhan,'" an eyewitness told the daily.

    Tuncel was captured by police on Oct. 23 as he was out doing his
    "daily jogging." The court decided to arrest him the next day.

    He had spent 38 days on the run, but he claims that he was hiding
    out in order to prepare his defense.

    Tuncel moved to Kumburgaz after being released by the court on Jan.

    12, 2012. He rented a villa by the sea and spent the summer in the
    town, but Kumburgaz locals said he had been away from his house
    after a new arrest warrant was issued for him. The villa's owner is
    still unknown.

    Tuncel was an informant in the Black Sea province of Trabzon ahead of
    the murder of Dink, the editor-in-chief of Armenian-Turkish newspaper
    Agos who was shot dead in broad daylight in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007.

    The trial concerning the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant
    Dink restarted in September, and the court subsequently issued an
    arrest warrant for Tuncel.

    Tuncel is seen as key in linking the murder to the state institutions,
    as members of the police department in Trabzon, the hometown of the
    suspects, have been accused of failing to relay intelligence provided
    by Tuncel to the Trabzon Gendarmerie Command, in a report prepared
    by Turkey's State Supervisory Council (DDK).

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