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Jan 7 2014
Court orders arrest of two suspects in Dink trial
7 January 2014 /TODAYSZAMAN.COM, Ä°STANBUL
A court has ordered the arrest of two suspects in the trial of the
murder of Hrant Dink -- the late editor-in-chief of the
Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos who was shot dead in 2007 by an
ultranationalist teenager outside the offices of his newspaper in
Ä°stanbul -- following their absence from a hearing held on Tuesday.
Following the Supreme Court of Appeals' reversing the ruling handed
down in Dink trial in which 18 suspects are being tried, the Ä°stanbul
14th High Criminal Court resumed hearing the case. When two
defendants, Osman Hayal and Zeynel Abidin, failed to show up for the
hearing, the court ordered their arrest.
The Supreme Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling that
dismissed the existence of an organized criminal network in the case.
The lower court, which found no evidence that a terrorist organization
was involved in the Jan. 19, 2007 assassination of Dink by teenager
Ogün Samast, had acquitted the suspects of forming a terrorist
organization, but it said they were guilty of forming an illegal and
armed organization to commit a crime as prohibited under Turkish Penal
Code (TCK) Article 220.
The lawyer for the Dink family had previously argued that an
ultranationalist organization was established in 2004 by Yasin Hayal
consisting of several people including Dink case suspect Erhan Tuncel,
and this group's anger at Dink, who was put on trial after being
accused of `insulting Turkishness,' led them to plot to punish him.
Sixteen out of 18 suspects have been released pending trial and two of
the suspects incarcerated. One of the two prisoners, Tuncel, arrested
by the court in October, has complained about his lengthy detention
period and requested his release.
The lawyer of Dink's family, Fethiye Çetin, stated that the trial
needed to be `restructured.'
Dink's friends and family gathered in front of the courthouse on
Tuesday to protest against the seven-year failure to bring the trial
to a conclusion.
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-335969-court-orders-arrest-of-two-suspects-in-dink-trial.html
Jan 7 2014
Court orders arrest of two suspects in Dink trial
7 January 2014 /TODAYSZAMAN.COM, Ä°STANBUL
A court has ordered the arrest of two suspects in the trial of the
murder of Hrant Dink -- the late editor-in-chief of the
Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos who was shot dead in 2007 by an
ultranationalist teenager outside the offices of his newspaper in
Ä°stanbul -- following their absence from a hearing held on Tuesday.
Following the Supreme Court of Appeals' reversing the ruling handed
down in Dink trial in which 18 suspects are being tried, the Ä°stanbul
14th High Criminal Court resumed hearing the case. When two
defendants, Osman Hayal and Zeynel Abidin, failed to show up for the
hearing, the court ordered their arrest.
The Supreme Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling that
dismissed the existence of an organized criminal network in the case.
The lower court, which found no evidence that a terrorist organization
was involved in the Jan. 19, 2007 assassination of Dink by teenager
Ogün Samast, had acquitted the suspects of forming a terrorist
organization, but it said they were guilty of forming an illegal and
armed organization to commit a crime as prohibited under Turkish Penal
Code (TCK) Article 220.
The lawyer for the Dink family had previously argued that an
ultranationalist organization was established in 2004 by Yasin Hayal
consisting of several people including Dink case suspect Erhan Tuncel,
and this group's anger at Dink, who was put on trial after being
accused of `insulting Turkishness,' led them to plot to punish him.
Sixteen out of 18 suspects have been released pending trial and two of
the suspects incarcerated. One of the two prisoners, Tuncel, arrested
by the court in October, has complained about his lengthy detention
period and requested his release.
The lawyer of Dink's family, Fethiye Çetin, stated that the trial
needed to be `restructured.'
Dink's friends and family gathered in front of the courthouse on
Tuesday to protest against the seven-year failure to bring the trial
to a conclusion.
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-335969-court-orders-arrest-of-two-suspects-in-dink-trial.html