LAWYERS: DINK MURDER WAS COMMITTED WITH SUPPORT OF SECURITY UNITS

PanARMENIAN.Net
28.04.2008 16:01 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The accused murderers of Hrant Dink, the editor of
Agos Turkish-Armenian newspaper, will appear before the court for the
fifth time 15 months after the murder. On 28 April hearing (Monday),
the remaining questionings are expected to be completed.

The Istanbul 14th Criminal Court, which tries the 19 defendants,
eight of whom are arrested, had demanded at the previous hearing that
the physical surveillance reports and telephone records concerning the
arrested defendants Yasin Hayal and Mustafa Ozturk. It is established
now that Yasin Hayal was under the surveillance of the Trabzon Police
Department, a major province in the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey,
BIA NEWS SERVICE reports.

Dink family lawyers say that the killing of the journalist on January
19, 2007 is not "a murder planned together by a few young men and
executed in spite of the authorities; they claim that the local
security units supported this group."

Hrant Dink was gunned down at his newspaper premises in Istanbul by
nationalist Ogun Samast on January 19, 2007.