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DINK MURDER TRIAL RESTARTS AMID FAMILY'S PROTEST, COURT RULES FOR ARREST OF KEY SUSPECT
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14:52 17.09.2013
Hrant Dink
The trial into the murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink
restarted in Istanbul today following an overturn of the first
verdict as the victim's family protested the trial, the Hurriyet
Daily News reports.
"As the Dink family, we will no more be tools to the state mechanisms
that have been mocking us and we will not attend the hearings of the
retrial," the Dink family said in a letter ahead of today's hearing.
"The crime coalition that is called the sate recommitted the murder
in every hearing, every day while it showed itself as if seeking for
justice. That coalition is the crime gang itself that planned the
murder and then covered it up," the family's letter read.
In today's hearing, the court issued an arrest warrant for Erhan
Tuncel, a former police informant and suspect in the murder case who
was released after the first verdict.
Tuncel is seen as a key in linking the murder to the state institutions
as members of the Police Department in the Black Sea province of
Trabzon, the suspects' hometown, 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).
Dink, the renowned editor-in-chief of Agos, was shot in front of his
office in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007.
The triggerman, Ogun Samast, 17-years-old at the time of the murder,
and Yasin Hayal, who was charged of being the instigator of the
assassination, were convicted of the murder. However, a high criminal
court dismissed charges related to "armed terrorist organization." The
Supreme Court of Appeals verdict defined the acts of all suspects in
the case under "an organization formed to commit crime" according to
Turkish Penal Code Article 220.
From: A. Papazian
http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/09/17/dink-murder-trial-restarts-amid-familys-protest-court-rules-for-arrest-of-key-suspect/
14:52 17.09.2013
Hrant Dink
The trial into the murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink
restarted in Istanbul today following an overturn of the first
verdict as the victim's family protested the trial, the Hurriyet
Daily News reports.
"As the Dink family, we will no more be tools to the state mechanisms
that have been mocking us and we will not attend the hearings of the
retrial," the Dink family said in a letter ahead of today's hearing.
"The crime coalition that is called the sate recommitted the murder
in every hearing, every day while it showed itself as if seeking for
justice. That coalition is the crime gang itself that planned the
murder and then covered it up," the family's letter read.
In today's hearing, the court issued an arrest warrant for Erhan
Tuncel, a former police informant and suspect in the murder case who
was released after the first verdict.
Tuncel is seen as a key in linking the murder to the state institutions
as members of the Police Department in the Black Sea province of
Trabzon, the suspects' hometown, 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).
Dink, the renowned editor-in-chief of Agos, was shot in front of his
office in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007.
The triggerman, Ogun Samast, 17-years-old at the time of the murder,
and Yasin Hayal, who was charged of being the instigator of the
assassination, were convicted of the murder. However, a high criminal
court dismissed charges related to "armed terrorist organization." The
Supreme Court of Appeals verdict defined the acts of all suspects in
the case under "an organization formed to commit crime" according to
Turkish Penal Code Article 220.
From: A. Papazian