Accomplice in Dink Murder Trained in Chechen Camp in Azerbaijan?

PanARMENIAN.Net
22.01.2007 15:25 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The investigators of Hrant Dink’s assassination
informed that a group of nationalist teenagers are involved in the
crime. The criminal grouping was headed by Yasin Hayal, who was
earlier tried for setting a bomb at a McDonald’s in Trabzon.

According to Milliyet newspaper, 17-year-old Ogun Samast, arrested
yesterday over suspicion of Dink’s killing, received the gun from
Hayal. At that both were members of the "Center of Islamic Order"
ultra-right organization. The edition reminds that after the arrest
in Trabzon Hayal shouted out in the court, "I did it to punish
Americans. I’ll get free in three years and will blow up HSBC Bank
and the Russian Consulate."

Meanwhile Istanbul Prosecutor Aykut Cengiz Engin told journalists
on Sunday that the investigation did not reveal involvement of any
organization in Dink’s killing. "The investigation is carried out in
all directions. Presently seven people are being interrogated," he
said. Samast said he committed the crime because of the journalist’s
writing. I am not sorry, he added, reports RIA Novosti.

International Herald Tribune says Yasin Hayal was trained to make
bombs at a camp of Chechen militants in Azerbaijan.