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TWO POLICEMEN ARRESTED OVER DINK MURDER
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Jan 13 2015
An Istanbul court has arrested two policemen involved in the inquiry
into the killing of Hrant Dink, the Turkish Armenian journalist.
The court accepted on Jan. 13 the prosecutor's demand to arrest
Muhittin Zenit and Ozkan Mumcu, two police officers on duty at the
police department in the Black Sea province of Trabzon when Dink was
killed in Istanbul.
Zenit and Mumcu had testified to the court and were released
immediately on Dec. 26, 2014.
The prosecutor had said both officers were guilty of negligence in the
crime that resulted in Dink's death and misused their authority. The
court had canceled the release of the suspects on Jan. 12.
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/13/2015
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/policeman-arrested-over-dink-murder.aspx?pageID=238&nID=76906&NewsCatID=509
From: Baghdasarian
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Jan 13 2015
An Istanbul court has arrested two policemen involved in the inquiry
into the killing of Hrant Dink, the Turkish Armenian journalist.
The court accepted on Jan. 13 the prosecutor's demand to arrest
Muhittin Zenit and Ozkan Mumcu, two police officers on duty at the
police department in the Black Sea province of Trabzon when Dink was
killed in Istanbul.
Zenit and Mumcu had testified to the court and were released
immediately on Dec. 26, 2014.
The prosecutor had said both officers were guilty of negligence in the
crime that resulted in Dink's death and misused their authority. The
court had canceled the release of the suspects on Jan. 12.
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/13/2015
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/policeman-arrested-over-dink-murder.aspx?pageID=238&nID=76906&NewsCatID=509
From: Baghdasarian