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TWO POLICE OFFICERS ARRESTED OVER HRANT DINK MURDER
Daily Sabah, Turkey
Jan 13 2015
DAILY SABAH
ISTANBUL
An Istanbul court has accepted the prosecutor's request to arrest two
police officers, Ozkan Mumcu and Muhittin Zenit, on Tuesday. The police
officers were part of the Trabzon branch of the Turkish National Police
at the time of the 2007 murder of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.
The two police officers have been arrested for "negligence" in the
inquiry of the murder.
Mumcu and Zenit have been charged with "failing to carry out an
effective probe", "causing death by negligence" and "abuse of power."
It is the first time that arrest warrants have been issued for police
officials in the investigation of the murder of the Turkish-Armenian
journalist.
Dink was shot dead in broad daylight by a teenage ultranationalist
outside the offices of his bilingual Agos newspaper, sending shockwaves
through Turkey.
Ogun Samast, then a 17-year-old jobless high-school dropout, confessed
to the murder and was sentenced to almost 23 years in jail in 2011.
Turkey's top court in July ruled that the investigation into the
killing had been flawed, paving the way for the trial of state
officials who could be implicated in the murder.
Seven other officials, including then Istanbul police chief, are
currently on trial on charges of negligence.
http://www.dailysabah.com/istanbul/2015/01/13/two-police-officers-arrested-over-hrant-dink-murder
From: Baghdasarian
Daily Sabah, Turkey
Jan 13 2015
DAILY SABAH
ISTANBUL
An Istanbul court has accepted the prosecutor's request to arrest two
police officers, Ozkan Mumcu and Muhittin Zenit, on Tuesday. The police
officers were part of the Trabzon branch of the Turkish National Police
at the time of the 2007 murder of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.
The two police officers have been arrested for "negligence" in the
inquiry of the murder.
Mumcu and Zenit have been charged with "failing to carry out an
effective probe", "causing death by negligence" and "abuse of power."
It is the first time that arrest warrants have been issued for police
officials in the investigation of the murder of the Turkish-Armenian
journalist.
Dink was shot dead in broad daylight by a teenage ultranationalist
outside the offices of his bilingual Agos newspaper, sending shockwaves
through Turkey.
Ogun Samast, then a 17-year-old jobless high-school dropout, confessed
to the murder and was sentenced to almost 23 years in jail in 2011.
Turkey's top court in July ruled that the investigation into the
killing had been flawed, paving the way for the trial of state
officials who could be implicated in the murder.
Seven other officials, including then Istanbul police chief, are
currently on trial on charges of negligence.
http://www.dailysabah.com/istanbul/2015/01/13/two-police-officers-arrested-over-hrant-dink-murder
From: Baghdasarian