TURKISH COURT REFUSED TO TRY SEVEN TRABZON POLICE OFFICERS INVOLVED IN DINK MURDER
PanARMENIAN.Net
31.10.2007 18:41 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Administrative Court has refused permission to try
seven police officers from the Trabzon police department, arguing
that they had no involvement in the murder of Hrant Dink.
The joint attorneys had then asked the Regional Administrative Court
for a decision. Fethiye Cetin, lawyer for the Dink family, said that
they had not officially been notified of the court decision yet,
but that she was curious how it would be justified.
The Trabzon Governor’s Office had not offered any justification for
refusing the investigation of the police officers.
The trial of Hrant Dink’s murder continues at the Istanbul 14th
Heavy Penal Court with 19 defendants, eight of them detained. Legal
proceeding were launched against two policemen accused of posing with
gunman Ogun Samast in Samsun, BYA Turkish newspaper reports.
The next hearing is due on 11 February 2008.
Hrant Dink was shot dead in front of the office of the weekly
Turkish-Armenian Agos newspaper in Sisli, central Istanbul, on 19
January 2007 by teenager Ogun Samast. Human rights activists in Turkey
and around the world are demanding that the trial go beyond the obvious
murder suspects and uncover the involvement of more powerful forces
behind the murder.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress