AGOS EDITOR SARKIS SEROPYAN: ERGENEKON CASE WAS HRANT’S DREAM

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18.01.2010 15:25

If Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was fatally shot in
front of the headquarters of the bilingual Armenian weekly Agos in
2007, were alive today, he would have been overjoyed that the Ergenekon
gang is being investigated, Agos Editor Sarkis Seropyan has said.

"If Hrant were alive and saw the Ergenekon case, he would have been
over the moon," he told Today’s Zaman. "He would have supported the
Ergenekon case much more than what we are able to do at Agos. He
would not have been satisfied just by presenting the news related
to Ergenekon."

Seropyan was referring to the investigation into Ergenekon, a
neo-nationalist gang believed to be the extension of a clandestine
network of groups with members in the armed forces and accused of
being behind a number of unsolved murders of journalists, academics,
public-opinion leaders and writers.

"It was his dream that those people’s masks would drop," Seropyan
said, referring to alleged members of Ergenekon investigated by the
Ä°stanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office.

An investigation in the wake of the Dink assassination revealed that
a group of ultranationalists was behind the murder. Strong evidence
suggested that some members of the group had ties with the police
department in northern Trabzon, the hometown of the plotters.

Some gendarmes later confirmed that they had been tipped off about
the plot to kill Dink before the murder was committed.

However, although three years have passed since Dink was killed,
the investigation into this vicious murder has yielded no conclusion.