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Police chief submits himself to police over Dink murder case
16:35 ¢ 19.01.15
A police chief accused of negligence in the murder of Armenian-Turkish
journalist Hrant Dink in 2007 has handed himself into the authorities
in Ankara, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Ercan Demir was controversially assigned as police chief of the
southeastern province of Å?ırnak on Dec. 30, despite accusations of
negligence ahead of Dink's murder when he was the intelligence police
chief in Trabzon province, where the convicted killer and his
accomplices came from. Dink's family lawyer has accused him of failing
to monitor the killers despite receiving notices about the planned
assassination.
After being assigned to Å?ırnak, Demir was then recalled to his
previous post at the General Security Directorate's Information
Technologies unit in Ankara, and he submitted himself to the police on
Jan. 16, the day when a court issued an arrest warrant for his role in
the Dink case. Demir is expected to testify in Istanbul.
On Jan. 13, an Istanbul court arrested Muhittin Zenit and Ã-zkan Mumcu,
two policemen involved in the inquiry into the killing of Dink.
Mourners are set to march in Istanbul to commemorate Dink on Jan. 19,
on the 8th anniversary of his killing.
Dink was assassinated by Ogün 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 to shoot
Dink, in the Black Sea province of Trabzon.
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.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/01/19/dinkpolice/1563753
16:35 ¢ 19.01.15
A police chief accused of negligence in the murder of Armenian-Turkish
journalist Hrant Dink in 2007 has handed himself into the authorities
in Ankara, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Ercan Demir was controversially assigned as police chief of the
southeastern province of Å?ırnak on Dec. 30, despite accusations of
negligence ahead of Dink's murder when he was the intelligence police
chief in Trabzon province, where the convicted killer and his
accomplices came from. Dink's family lawyer has accused him of failing
to monitor the killers despite receiving notices about the planned
assassination.
After being assigned to Å?ırnak, Demir was then recalled to his
previous post at the General Security Directorate's Information
Technologies unit in Ankara, and he submitted himself to the police on
Jan. 16, the day when a court issued an arrest warrant for his role in
the Dink case. Demir is expected to testify in Istanbul.
On Jan. 13, an Istanbul court arrested Muhittin Zenit and Ã-zkan Mumcu,
two policemen involved in the inquiry into the killing of Dink.
Mourners are set to march in Istanbul to commemorate Dink on Jan. 19,
on the 8th anniversary of his killing.
Dink was assassinated by Ogün 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 to shoot
Dink, in the Black Sea province of Trabzon.
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.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/01/19/dinkpolice/1563753