PHONE CONVERSATIONS OF MAIN DEFENDANTS ARE OVERHEARD TILL HRANT DINK’S MURDER

ISTANBUL, MAY 14, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Turkish press has
published for few days some information unknown to the society
concerning Erhan Tuncel and Yasin Hayal, main defendants arrested on
the case of Agos weekly editor-in-chief Hrant Dink’s murder.

Publications of the Milliyet and Radikal newspapers are bright
evidence of the fact that there are many dark corners in the affair of
Hrant Dink’s murder obviously speaking about which is not at all
advantageous for some Turkish circles.

Erhan Tuncel, who, as it is known, has worked since 2004 as an
informer of the police with Mehmed Kurt pseudonym and few times
informed the Trapison Security Service employees about possible murder
of Dink, made a statement the other day, insisting that he is
innocent: "I did not organize Hrant Dink’s murder and even attempted
to hamper its implementation," he said.

The Turkish press spread information according to which a number of
documents relating to Tuncel were liquidated as well as a great part
of records of his and Yasin Hayal’s phone conversations was
lost. Hayal’s and Tuncel’s phone conversations were overheard till
Dink’s murder as well as just on its day. Only a small part of them
reached the Prosecutor’s Office.

The fact is also typical that Tuncel 6 times rang up a policeman with
the name of Memduh from January 19, the day of Dink’s murder, to
January 21. But those conversations were not involved in the formed
material.

And the Radikal daily states that just on the day of Dink’s murder
Erhan Tuncel said when speaking with one of his friends over the phone
that he had no relation with the encroachment and his interlocutor
added in unseemply words that "the one who was to peg out was already
pegged out." In three days, during a phone conversation with another
friend Tuncel said "I feel sorrow for the died man," and the
interlocutor said: "The deed of those people will court disaster on
Turkey. There are forces which do not want that Turkey fixes
progress."

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress