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DINK MURDER CASE SUSPECTS RELEASED TWO DAYS AFTER ARREST
January 10, 2014 - 12:32 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Two suspects in the Turkish-Armenian journalist
Hrant Dink murder case, who were arrested in Trabzon two days ago,
were released after interrogation, according to Hurriyet Daily News.
Zeynel Abidin Yavuz and Osman Hayal were considered key suspects,
and arrest orders for them were issued after they failed to attend
an initial hearing.
Yavuz is said to have been the first triggerman chosen to murder Dink
while Hayal's brother, Yasin Hayal, has been charged with being the
instigator of the assassination.
The Supreme Court of Appeals had overturned the acquittals of top
suspects, including Yasin Hayal. Hayal and other 18 suspects, including
Erhan Tuncel and Ersin Yolcu, are set to stand again in the retrial,
which resumed on Sept 17, 2013.
The sudden release of the suspects shortly after their arrest comes
10 days ahead of the 7th anniversary of Dink's murder.
The editor-in-chief of bilingual Agos weekly, which has been the voice
of the small Armenian community in Istanbul for several decades,
was shot dead by Ogun Samast in front of his office in Istanbul on
Jan 19, 2007.
Lawyers representing the Dink family have repeatedly expressed their
dismay over the way the investigations and the trial were conducted.
One of the lawyers, Fethiye Cetin, said last September that the current
stage was "far behind the starting point," as the indictment of the
retrial will review whether a "terrorist organization" plotted the
murder, a point that was simply assumed in the first trial.
Cetin argued in a recently-published book that the order to kill
was given by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT)
via an encrypted message.
The self-named group Friends of Dink, which is made up of journalists,
relatives, friends and other intellectuals, also accuse the state of
being responsible for the murder.
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/174710/
January 10, 2014 - 12:32 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Two suspects in the Turkish-Armenian journalist
Hrant Dink murder case, who were arrested in Trabzon two days ago,
were released after interrogation, according to Hurriyet Daily News.
Zeynel Abidin Yavuz and Osman Hayal were considered key suspects,
and arrest orders for them were issued after they failed to attend
an initial hearing.
Yavuz is said to have been the first triggerman chosen to murder Dink
while Hayal's brother, Yasin Hayal, has been charged with being the
instigator of the assassination.
The Supreme Court of Appeals had overturned the acquittals of top
suspects, including Yasin Hayal. Hayal and other 18 suspects, including
Erhan Tuncel and Ersin Yolcu, are set to stand again in the retrial,
which resumed on Sept 17, 2013.
The sudden release of the suspects shortly after their arrest comes
10 days ahead of the 7th anniversary of Dink's murder.
The editor-in-chief of bilingual Agos weekly, which has been the voice
of the small Armenian community in Istanbul for several decades,
was shot dead by Ogun Samast in front of his office in Istanbul on
Jan 19, 2007.
Lawyers representing the Dink family have repeatedly expressed their
dismay over the way the investigations and the trial were conducted.
One of the lawyers, Fethiye Cetin, said last September that the current
stage was "far behind the starting point," as the indictment of the
retrial will review whether a "terrorist organization" plotted the
murder, a point that was simply assumed in the first trial.
Cetin argued in a recently-published book that the order to kill
was given by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT)
via an encrypted message.
The self-named group Friends of Dink, which is made up of journalists,
relatives, friends and other intellectuals, also accuse the state of
being responsible for the murder.
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/174710/