SOME OF DINK MURDER EVIDENCE HIDDEN OR DESTROYED
PanARMENIAN.Net
13.02.2008 12:51 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Erdal Dogan, a lawyer representing the family of
slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, has said the murder has
not been properly investigated, noting that some of the evidence has
been hidden or destroyed.
"During the preparations for trial, the prosecutor’s office
demanded some information that has not been provided, and during the
investigation process, the court’s demands from security personnel
and institutions have not been fulfilled. If such information is
being withheld, the people behind this crime cannot be revealed,
so we can’t talk about a just trial process," Dogan said yesterday,
following the third hearing on Monday in the trial of defendants
accused of assassinating Dink.
Referring to the series of police lapses in the handling of the Dink
case and official attempts to protect those who plotted the crime as
reported by the press previously, Dogan said: "In the report related
to how the defendants had been organized to commit the crime, head of
police intelligence Ramazan Akyurek intervened in the case by calling
Yasin Hayal and others planning the murder merely a group of friends
who came together because he said Dink had insulted Turkishness. Plus
he obstructed justice by ordering the destruction of a 49-page document
related to one of the defendants, Erhan Tuncel. The trial cannot
proceed in a healthy manner because documents containing information
on more than 6,000 telephone calls made by some of the defendants
have been destroyed by security officials in Trabzon [where several
suspects who are being tried for instigating the crime are from]."
The questioning will continue on Feb. 25, with many in the country
following the case closely, Zaman reports.
Hrant Dink was assassinated on January 19, 2007 by ultranationalist
Ogun Samast.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
