Anatolia News Agency, Turkey
January 4, 2008
Turkish MPs continue investigation of journalist’s murder
Istanbul, 4 January: A five-strong Turkish parliamentary human rights
committee visited the family members of late journalist Hrant Dink in
Bakirkoy district of Istanbul on Friday [4 January].
The committee held a meeting with Dink’s spouse Rakel Dink, brother
Orhan, son Arat and lawyer of the Dink family. The meeting lasted 1
hour and 20 minutes.
"We have received information that will guide us in our
investigation. It was a fruitful meeting," said Mehmet Ocaktan,
chairman of the committee.
The committee has finished working in Istanbul and will conduct
meetings in Ankara and Trabzon next week.
Hrant Dink, Turkish journalist of Armenian descent and
editor-in-chief of the Agos daily was assassinated in Istanbul in
2007.