TURKISH POLICE ANNOUNCED OF ARREST OF HRANT DINK’S KILLER
Yerevan, January 22. ArmInfo. Yesterday, the Turkish authorities
have announced of arrest of the killer of Agos newspaper’s Editor
Hrant Dink.
As the Turkish Mass Media report, it was a 17-years-old student
of a Lyceum, Ogiun Samast, who has already confessed the crime:
he wanted to revenge him for his publications about the Armenian
Genocide. Presently, the Police is checking if he was a member of
any nationalistic organization and is investigating his possible
participation in the murder of the Italian Catholic priest, killed
in February, 2006. Hrant dink was killed on February. As one of
the journalist’s assistants told the Police, some young man had
dropped in on the Istanbul Editorial office of Agos in the morning
and got interested if the Editor-in-Chief is there. Having got an
affirmative answer, the young man went away. Two hours later, the same
assistant saw that young man in front of the Editorial Office’s entry.
Apparently, the young man was tired of waiting of his victim. "We
were told somebody wants to talk to Hrant Dink and give him an
important information", a member of the Editorial Board of Agos,
Serkis Seropyan, said. "H. Dink went out, then we heard shots". An
employee of a snack-bar, located in front of the Editorial Office,
told the Police about the happened in the street. According to him,
a young man was long shifting from one foot to the other as if he was
waiting for someone. "Then I saw how he quickly approached the man
who appeared in the Editorial Office’s doorway. Then he snapped up the
gun and shot at his head several times", the witness said. After that,
he turned to me and said: "If you tell somebody I will kill you!".
The Police found the traces of Hrant Dink’s killer due to a
video-control camera, installed in front of the entry to the Bank’s
Department near the crime place. The camera had fixed a young man who
was quickly running away, hiding an object under the clothes resembling
a gun. On Saturday, the leading Turkish TV channels have shown the
photo of the suspect. One of the Trabzon dwellers has recognized
his son by the photo and called the Police. Late at Saturday night,
the Police arrested Ogiun Smast at the bus station of Samsun town,
who was leaving for home from Istanbul.