HRANT DINK MURDER TRIAL TO BEGIN JULY 2
The New Anatolian, Turkey
June 29 2007
A high court in Istanbul will start hearing 18 suspects accused of
participation in the assassination of Hrant Dink, a Turkish journalist
of Armenian descent, on Monday July 2. 12 of them are in prison.
52-year-old Dink, editor-in-chief of the Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos,
was shot dead in front of his office in Istanbul on January 19th, 2007.
The hearing will be held behind closed doors since O.S., accused to
be the hitman, is below 18. The first hearing will be attended only
by suspects and their lawyers, as well as Dink’s family.
INDICTMENT
The prosecutor ism demanding life imprisonment for Erhan Tuncel and
Yasin Hayal on charges of inciting to murder, while he demands that
O.S. should be sentenced to prison terms between 18 to 24 years.
Prison terms ranging between 7.5 and 35 years are requested for
Mustafa Ozturk, Tuncay Uzundal, Zeynel Abidin Yavuz, Ahmet Iskender,
Ersin Yolcu, Salih Hacisalihoglu, Alper Esirgemez, Irfan Ozkan, Osman
Alpay, Erbil Susaman, Numan Sisman, Senol Akduman and Veysel Toprak.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress