RAKEL DINK CALLS ON TURKISH PM TO SPEED UP TRIAL PROCESS
NTV MSNBC, Turkey
May 17 2007
More than a dozen suspects have been detained in connection with
Dink’s slaying.
ISTANBUL – The wife of murdered Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant
Dink, has said she does not want to see the death of her husband
turned into a cover up.
In a letter sent to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Rakel Dink
said she was concerned at the slow pace of the investigation and
judicial processes surrounding the case of her husband’s murder.
Hrant Dink was gunned down outside his Istanbul office on January 19,
after receiving numerous death threats from nationalist and right
wing groups.
Though more than a dozen persons have been taken into custody,
including a 17 year old youth accused of shooting Dink, the
investigation into the attack is continuing.
Rakel Dink called on Erdogan to appoint a prime ministry inspection
council to investigate case in detail.