FINALLY O.S. IS EIGHTEEN, DINK’S TRIAL WILL BE OPEN TO THE MEDIASINCE THE ACCUSED O.S. IN DINK’S MURDER TRIAL WILL BE EIGHTEEN IN THE NEXT HEARING, THE TRIAL WILL BE OPEN TO THE MEDIA.

BÄ°
June 25 2008
Turkey

Bia news center

O.S., the accused in the murder trial of Hrant Dink, the founder and
chief editor of Agos, the Armenian- Turkish weekly, who was slained
on January 19, 2007, will be eighteen years old on June 28, Saturday,
and therefore the hearing on July 7 will be open to the media and
the public.

The Judiciary Medical Institution (the coroner’s jury) had inspected
the bone information of the accused and had determined that he was
not seventeen, but nineteen on the day of the murder. However, the
court had refused to take this information into consideration.

The accused was born on June 28, 1990, according to the records of
Zeynep Kamil hospital and therefore he will be eighteen on June 28.

The next hearing of Dink’s murder trial will be at the Ä°stanbul 14th
High Criminal Court on July 7.

Since the confidentiality decision of the previous hearings will
be removed, the media will be able to publish the statements of the
accused. (NZ/EZO/TB)

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