DINK MURDER TRIAL CONTINUES IN INSTANBUL

PanARMENIAN.Net
27.02.2008 14:14 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The fourth hearing in the trial of murdered Agos
editor Hrant Dink was held at Istanbul’s 14th Court for Serious Crimes
in Besiktas district two weeks after the third session.

The third hearing on Feb. 11 had been postponed to Feb. 25 to complete
taking the testimony of all the suspects after the testimonies
of Erhan Tuncel and Yasin Hayal, the suspected inciters of the
murder, were heard in the third session. Suspects Ersin Yolcu, Ahmet
Yskender, Mustafa Ozturk and Salih Hacysalihoglu were questioned in
the trial. Along with other crimes, Yolcu, Yskender and Ozturk are
alleged to have assisted a terror organization and of being members
of a terror organization.

Deputies from both the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)
and the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) were in court to
observe the trial. Zafer Uskul, an AKP deputy and the head of the
parliamentary commission on human rights was present at the trial as
well. "Our commission does not have the authority to intervene in a
judicial process," Uskul said, Turkish Daily News reports.

Hrant Dink was gunned down at his Istanbul newspaper office on January
17, 2007 by ultranationalist Ogun Samast.