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CIZRE'S NEW POLICE CHIEF WANTED AS PART OF DINK MURDER CASE
Today's Zaman, Turkey
Jan 16 2015
Newly appointed police chief of Turkey's southeastern district of
Cizre, where at least six people were killed in turmoil, is now
wanted by the court as part of an investigation into the killing of
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.
Ercan Demir, who was appointed as Cizre's district police chief
earlier this year, was presiding over a district where tensions were
running high. Both Interior Minister Efkan Ala and jailed leader of
the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan warned
against "provocations" in the district.
Demir was questioned as a "suspect" as part of the investigation by
prosecutors in Ä°stanbul courthouse on Jan. 12, but a court released
him pending trial. Ä°stanbul prosecutors appealed the court's decision
and Ä°stanbul's Penal Court of Peace issued an arrest warrant for
Demir on Friday on charges of "negliglence over the murder."
Demir was serving as the Chief of the Intelligence Unit at Trabzon
Police Department when Dink was gunned down.
Today's Zaman, Turkey
Jan 16 2015
Newly appointed police chief of Turkey's southeastern district of
Cizre, where at least six people were killed in turmoil, is now
wanted by the court as part of an investigation into the killing of
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.
Ercan Demir, who was appointed as Cizre's district police chief
earlier this year, was presiding over a district where tensions were
running high. Both Interior Minister Efkan Ala and jailed leader of
the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan warned
against "provocations" in the district.
Demir was questioned as a "suspect" as part of the investigation by
prosecutors in Ä°stanbul courthouse on Jan. 12, but a court released
him pending trial. Ä°stanbul prosecutors appealed the court's decision
and Ä°stanbul's Penal Court of Peace issued an arrest warrant for
Demir on Friday on charges of "negliglence over the murder."
Demir was serving as the Chief of the Intelligence Unit at Trabzon
Police Department when Dink was gunned down.