TURKISH GENERAL ARRESTED OVER SUSPECT IN DINK MURDER COMPLICITY
PanARMENIAN.Net
23.01.2008 16:03 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Istanbul police department on combating terrorism
arrested 50 people including retired General Vali Kicik, Aksam
newspaper employee Guler Komurcu, lawyer Kamal Kerincsiz and
spokesperson for Orthodox Church of Turkey Sevgi Erenerol.
They are suspected in complicity in the murder of Agos editor Hrant
Dink, armed attack against judges, explosion in Cumhurriyet newspaper
premises, attempt on two monks’ life in Trabzon and Izmir.
Kicik and others accused of membership in illegal radical nationalist
groups are interrogated in Istanbul Police Department. It’s not known
yet whether they were incriminated. Dengir Mir Mehmet Firat, one of
the leaders of Justice and Development Party (AKP) stated that police
carried out a huge operation and he is eager for the results.
Vali Kichik, member of World Azerbaijanis Congress Management Board
was detained last year but was released soon afterwards, APA reports.