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    Hrant Dink murder case has regressed, lawyer says ahead of retrial

    http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/09/14/hrant-dink-murder-case-has-regressed-lawyer-says-ahead-of-retrial/
    14:50 14.09.2013

    Hrant Dink

    The case on Hrant Dink's murder has not advanced but regressed, one of
    the lawyers representing the Turkish-Armenian journalist said, as the
    retrial is set to start next week, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

    "We are currently much further behind of the starting point of the
    trial," Fethiye Çetin told reporters during a press conference on
    Sept. 13, arguing that in the initial trial the indictment already
    defined the organization as "terrorist" while in the retrial, this
    aspect of the case would be reviewed.

    Çetin, who published this month a book about the unknown facts of the
    case ("Utanç Duyuyorum: Hrant Dink Cinayetinin Yargısı," "I Feel
    Ashamed: The Judgment of the Hrant Dink Murder") explained that the
    Supreme Court had defined the motive of the organization as
    "political" rather than "terrorist" in its verdict that led to the
    retrial of the case.

    The Supreme Court of Appeals had overturned the acquittals of top
    suspects, including Yasin Hayal, who was charged with being the
    instigator of the assassination and the "leader of a terrorist
    organization." Hayal and other suspects such as Erhan Tuncel and Ersin
    Yolcu will also be retried.

    "According to the Supreme Court, this organization was established in
    2004 by Yasin Hayal. It comprises Erhan Tuncel, Ersin Yolcu, Ahmet
    İskender and Ogün Samast, whom they use as the triggerman of the
    murder. [...] However it is defined as only established with a political
    motive, to punish Hrant Dink," Çetin said. For a murder to be
    considered a "terrorist act," it would have to be committed with a
    clear aim against the state of the public order, according to the
    Turkish Penal Code.

    "The Supreme Court has made a mistake in its definition of the nature
    and the aim of the organization," Çetin said, adding that it could
    take the court many years of trial to rule on the "terror
    organization" aspect.

    Dink, the renowned editor-in-chief of Agos, was shot in front of his
    office in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007.

    Following the convictions of Samast and Hayal for the murder, a high
    criminal court had dismissed charges related to "armed terrorist
    organization." Later, the Supreme Court verdict defined the acts of
    all suspects in the case under "an organization formed to commit
    crime" according to the Turkish Penal Code's Article 220.

    Çetin argues in her book that the killing order was given by the
    Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT) via an encrypted
    message.

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