Police tries to defend organizers of Dink’s murder
27.06.2009 18:22 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A report on the threat to Turkish-Armenian
journalist Hrant Dink’s life was tampered with and toned down before
being sent to Istanbul.
In particular, the sentence ‘Yasin Hayal will murder Hrant Dink
whatever the cost’ was changed to ‘Hayal is planning to take action
toward Dink’.
On June 16, 2006, Trabzon Police Department received report on Yasin
Hayal’s intention to take action against Dink’s life. Two days later,
the modified form of the statement was sent to Istanbul Police
department. The document carries the signature of Ramazan Akyürek who
was Trabzon’s chief of police at the time.
In a report prepared by the Prime Minister’s Inspection Board, Akyürek
is being blamed for `neglecting duty’. The document was approved by
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan.
The report signed by Akyürek includes intelligence provided by
Tuncel. Tuncel says an accomplice of Hayal told him that Dink and Agos
daily were blackening the image of Turks and the Turkish Republic, and
for that reason they were planning to take action against him.
`While I was convinced Hayal would do what he wanted to do for sure, I
advised him not to do so. He told me that he would kill this person no
matter the cost,’ Hurriyet Daily News quotes Tuncel as saying.
Hrant Dink was gunned down Jan. 19, 2007 in front of his office in
central Within case frameworks, there are 18 detainees, most of them
being from Trabzon.
Yasin Hayal, 26, who supplied Ogün Samast will stand trial on July
6. That will be the 6th hearing over the case.