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    FORMER POLICE INTEL OFFICER GIVES TESTIMONY IN HRANT DINK CASE

    15:53, 25 Dec 2014

    Former Trabzon police intelligence branch chief Faruk Sarı gave his
    testimony to Istanbul's prosecutor as a suspect in the murder case
    of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink in 2007, the Hurriyet Daily
    News reports.

    The prosecutor had demanded the arrest of Sarı for his role in the
    "intended murder that took place due to negligence." However, an
    Istanbul court decided that Sarı would be tried without arrest on
    probation on Dec. 24.

    Prosecutor Gökalp Kökcu interrogated Sarı on Dec. 24 as part of
    the ongoing trial. The Dink murder case is being retried after the
    Interior Ministry allowed the prosecution of several public officials
    who were accused of negligence in the course of events which ended
    in the murder.

    Dink was assassinated by Ogun Samast, who is serving 22 years and
    10 months in a high-security F-type prison, in broad daylight on
    a busy street outside the office of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian
    weekly Agos in Istanbul's Å~^iÅ~_li district on Jan. 19, 2007. The
    assassination caused outrage across the country, sending hundreds of
    thousands to the streets in mass rallies.

    When the prosecutor asked why he did not took any measures to prevent
    the murder, Sarı responded that he had no information about the murder
    attempt. The prosecutor sent him to the court, demanding his arrest.

    The court released Sarı on probation. The investigation into Dink's
    murder took a different path after the government launched a fight
    against the so-called "parallel structure," which the government uses
    to refer to the movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah
    Gulen. The Justice Ministry has cleared the way for investigations
    into nine civil servants accused of negligence in Dink's murder.

    http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/12/25/former-police-intel-officer-gives-testimony-in-hrant-dink-case/

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