POLICE REPORT ON DINK TONED DOWN

armradio.am
27.06.2009 14:45

A report on the threat to Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink’s life
was tampered with and toned down before being sent to Istanbul. The
sentence ‘Yasin Hayal will murder Hrant Dink whatever the cost’
was changed to ‘Hayal is planning to take action toward Dink,’ the
Hurriyet Daily News reported.

Dink, the former editor-in-chief of daily Agos, was gunned down
Jan. 19, 2007 in front of his office in central Istanbul and the
instigator is suspected to be Yasin Hayal.

The mentioned intelligence report, written by the staff of the Trabzon
Police Department on Feb. 16, 2006 and sent to the Istanbul Police
Department two days later, carries the signature of Ramazan Akyurek
who was Trabzon’s chief of police at the time.

Akyurek is being blamed for "neglecting duty" in a report prepared
by the Prime Ministry Inspection Board, which was approved by Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.