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  • ANKARA: Arrest Order Issued For Two Policemen In Dink Murder Case

    ARREST ORDER ISSUED FOR TWO POLICEMEN IN DINK MURDER CASE

    Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
    Jan 12 2015

    ISTANBUL

    An Istanbul court has issued an arrest order for two policemen involved
    in the inquiry into the killing of Hrant Dink, the Turkish Armenian
    journalist, as the case deepens.

    The court accepted on Jan. 12 the prosecutor's demand to cancel the
    release of Ozkan Mumcu and Muhittin Zenit, two police officers who
    were on duty at the police department in the Black Sea province of
    Trabzon when Dink was killed in Istanbul.

    The two suspects testified to the court and were released immediately
    on Dec. 26, 2014.

    The prosecutor said both officers were guilty of negligence in the
    crime that resulted in Dink's death and misused their authority.

    Dink was assassinated by Ogun Samast, who is serving a sentence of
    22 years and 10 months in a high-security prison, on a busy street
    outside the office of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos in
    Istanbul's Å~^iÅ~_li district.

    Yusuf Hayal and Erhan Tuncel are accused of convincing Samast in the
    Black Sea province of Trabzon to shoot Dink.

    Civil servants and institutions allegedly implicated in the murder
    of Dink should be investigated, the Constitutional Court ruled on
    July 17, 2014. The ruling became a milestone in the case that has
    been lingering since the killing in 2007.

    Since then, former Istanbul police chief Celalettin Cerrah, former
    Trabzon police chief ReÅ~_at Altay, former Trabzon police intelligence
    branch chief Faruk Sarı, former Istanbul deputy governor Ergun
    Gungör and former Istanbul police intelligence chief Ahmet İlhan
    Guler have testified as suspects in the case.

    January/12/2015

    http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/arrest-order-issued-for-two-policemen-in-dink-murder-case.aspx?PageID=238&NID=76849&NewsCatID=509

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