5TH HEARING IN DINK CASE WILL BE HELD JULY 7
armradio.am
30.04.2008 12:53
The fifth hearing in the trial of slain Turkish-Armenian journalist
Hrant Dink was held at Istanbul’s 14th Court for Serious Crimes in
BeÅ~_iktaÅ~_ district. The next hearing will be held July 7. In
the case, in which 19 suspects are standing trial, the court
heard the testimonies of Ä°rfan Ozkan and Numan Å~^iÅ~_man, whose
questioning could not be completed before. The two suspects repeated
the testimonies that they gave to security forces in the Black Sea
city of Trabzon, where all the suspects are from, and said they had
seen two hand guns in police informer and one of the inciters of the
murder, Erhan Tuncel’s house.
Another suspect Å~^enol Akduman, who was set to be questioned
yesterday, did not attend the hearing because he is completing his
military service.
The 19th suspect in the trial, inciter Yasin Hayal’s brother-in-law,
CoÅ~_kun Igci, attended the hearing, however Dink’s lawyers could not
cross-question him because Igci did not have a lawyer present. Igci
at the hearing of two gendarmerie soldiers who were standing trial
for neglect of duty in Trabzon said in his statement that he had
performed his duty and informed the gendarmerie about Hayal’s plan
to murder Dink.
Speaking at the hearing Hayal said, "I hate and feel disgust at
Hrant." Upon this statement, one of Dink’s lawyers asked Hayal whether
he had known Dink before he bombed a McDonald’s restaurant in Trabzon,
said one of Dink’s lawyers, who wished to remain anonymous. Hayal
said he did not know Dink before the event. So the lawyer asked if
there was any relation between his hatred and disgust at Dink and
the then visit of retired army member Veli Kucuk and the Istanbul
president of an ultra-nationalist association, Levent Temiz, when he
was in prison. Following this question Hayal is said to have panicked
and shouted at the lawyer: "You are lying, you are lying."
Dink’s lawyers also filed a complaint against Hayal’s lawyer Fuat
Turgut under Article 214 of the Turkish penal code, for inciting one
person against another, due to his hate-filled speeches against Nobel
Prize-winning writer Orhan Pamuk.
Dink’s lawyers have requested the presence of more than 10 witnesses to
provide testimony in the next hearing. One of Dink’s lawyers, Fethiye
Cetin, said the hearing will be open to members of the press since O.S.
will no longer be a minor as of June 28, teh Turkish Daily News
reported.
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