HE SAID HE WOULD TALK AND HE DID

Sabah, Turkey
Feb 8 2007

Yasin Hayal initially accepted responsibility for being the solicitor
of the Hrant Dink murder, upon being arrested, however, when learning
that Tuncel was an informant, he changed his tune, placing all
responsibility on Tuncel.

Yasin Hayal, after his father told SABAH, "my son will explain
everything," answered the questions of the public prosecutors that
interrogated him in jail. However, this time he said: "the bomb
attack on McDonalds in Trabzon was solicited by Erhan as was the
assassination of Hrant Dink. He had everything done." In Hayal’s
initial interrogation upon arrest, he had confessed to being
responsible for everything.

His statement changed: "Tuncel did everything"

Since the first day he was arrested, Yasin Hayal accepted being
the solicitor in both the Hrant Dink murder as well as in the Mc
Donald’s bombing. However, after learning he was an informant Hayal
then claimed Tuncel was the solicitor of the murder. Hayal also said:
"if I had known he was an informant, I would have killed him."

Yasin Hayal was arrested and sent to jail for the solicitation of the
murder of Hrant Dink. He did what he told his father he would do over
the phone from jail and told the prosecutors, that questioned him
for a second time, that the idea of murder was actually Erhan Tuncel’s.

He had insistently stated that he solicited this murder when he
was first arrested; but now he said that he had decided to talk
since he learned that Erhan Tuncel was a police informant. He said:
"the bomb attack on McDonalds in Trabzon was solicited by Erhan as
was the assassination of Hrant Dink. He had everything done."