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POLICE OFFICER RELEASED OVER HRANT DINK MURDER
Daily Sabah, Turkey
Jan 14 2015
ANADOLU AGENCY
ISTANBUL
A senior police officer, suspected of negligence in the murder of
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in 2007, was released on
conditional probation by an Istanbul court on Wednesday.
Ercan Demir, who is the police chief in the town of Cizre in Turkey's
southeastern province of Å~^ırnak, was on duty as chief at the police
department in the Black Sea province of Trabzon when Hrant Dink was
killed in Istanbul.
Dink's murderer, Ogun Samast, had come from Trabzon.
Demir was questioned by an Istanbul prosecutor on Monday. He rejected
accusations of "causing death due to negligence." He is forbidden to
leave Turkey.
Two other police officers, also from Trabzon, were arrested on Tuesday
in the negligence probe related to Dink's murder.
Ozkan Mumcu and Muhittin Zenit are accused of "causing death due to
negligence" and "professional misconduct."
Nine officials in total have been questioned in the investigation.
High-profile figures questioned last month include former Istanbul vice
Governor Ergun Gungör, former Istanbul police chief Celalettin Cerrah
and former Istanbul police intelligence unit chief Ahmet Ilhan Guler.
Dink's murderer, Samast, who was 17 years old at the time, was tried
and convicted in 2011.
Dink was the editor-in-chief of the weekly Agos, and was considered
to be one of the most prominent Armenian voices in Turkey.
Samast, who is serving a sentence of 23 years in prison, said that
he had killed Dink for insulting "Turkishness."
http://www.dailysabah.com/investigations/2015/01/14/police-officer-released-over-hrank-dink-murder
Daily Sabah, Turkey
Jan 14 2015
ANADOLU AGENCY
ISTANBUL
A senior police officer, suspected of negligence in the murder of
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in 2007, was released on
conditional probation by an Istanbul court on Wednesday.
Ercan Demir, who is the police chief in the town of Cizre in Turkey's
southeastern province of Å~^ırnak, was on duty as chief at the police
department in the Black Sea province of Trabzon when Hrant Dink was
killed in Istanbul.
Dink's murderer, Ogun Samast, had come from Trabzon.
Demir was questioned by an Istanbul prosecutor on Monday. He rejected
accusations of "causing death due to negligence." He is forbidden to
leave Turkey.
Two other police officers, also from Trabzon, were arrested on Tuesday
in the negligence probe related to Dink's murder.
Ozkan Mumcu and Muhittin Zenit are accused of "causing death due to
negligence" and "professional misconduct."
Nine officials in total have been questioned in the investigation.
High-profile figures questioned last month include former Istanbul vice
Governor Ergun Gungör, former Istanbul police chief Celalettin Cerrah
and former Istanbul police intelligence unit chief Ahmet Ilhan Guler.
Dink's murderer, Samast, who was 17 years old at the time, was tried
and convicted in 2011.
Dink was the editor-in-chief of the weekly Agos, and was considered
to be one of the most prominent Armenian voices in Turkey.
Samast, who is serving a sentence of 23 years in prison, said that
he had killed Dink for insulting "Turkishness."
http://www.dailysabah.com/investigations/2015/01/14/police-officer-released-over-hrank-dink-murder