Dink’s family demands quick action from prosecutors

armradio.am
01.05.2010 13:22

Two lawyers representing the family of the late Turkish-Armenian
journalist Hrant Dink have asked the Ä°stanbul Public Prosecutor’s
Office to appoint prosecutors who would conduct a thorough
investigation into the murder of Dink because it has proven to be a
three-year-long `operation’ through the legal cases, investigations
and inquiries conducted up until the present day.

The lawyers also requested that the prosecutors appointed allocate
most of their time to the investigation.

`The prosecutor or prosecutors who will be appointed to this
investigation should be released from other duties and attending
hearings because the acts we mentioned in our petition covers a period
of more than three years; the number of individuals and institutions
involved is quite high and thus require intense concentration and
time. This is why we requested from the office that prosecutors focus
primarily on this investigation to conduct it in a timely and thorough
manner, as one should not expect satisfactory work from them with
their existing workload,’ lawyer Fethiye Ã?etin said.

The petition, which was submitted to the prosecutor’s office
yesterday, lays out the course of the murder in phases of
`preparation,’ `creating public opinion,’ `action’ and `manipulation,’
and `destroying evidence’ after the murder.

The elements of the preparation phase are described in the petition as
news made by the media to turn the public opinion against Dink,
official complaints against him with identical petitions and the
indictments prepared against him without having any legal grounds. The
members of the National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T), the
intelligence services of the gendarmerie and the police are mentioned
as being part of this phase, as they had not taken any preventative
measures although they had been closely following the plan and the
triggerman at the time, Today’s Zaman reports.