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Azerbaijan's National Security Ministry denied rumors that instigator of Dink's murder was trained in Azerbaijan
Regnum, Russia
Jan 22 2007
The International Herald Tribune in its report on murder of
Armenian-language Agos newspaper editor Hrant Dink says that instigator
of the murder Yasin Hayal was trained at camps for Chechen militants
in Azerbaijan. The article published today says that Yasin Hayal was
convicted in the bombing of a McDonald's restaurant in Trabzon in
2004 and had said to police that he learned how to make bombs from
Chechen militants in a camp in Azerbaijan.
As spokesman for the Azerbaijani National Security Ministry Arif
Babayev told Mediaforum, statements of the author of the article
grounds upon no facts. "I am very sorry that such a respectable
newspaper published such inadequate information. Opinions about Chechen
camps in Azerbaijani were sounded before. But no such opinion was
confirmed. There no facts, no proofs, no evidence. And there cannot
be. I do not rule out hostile actions in such publication coming out."
Editor of Agos newspaper Hrant Dink was shot dead on January 19. Ogun
Samast, 17, was arrested as a suspect of killing the editor. During the
investigation, Samast announced he was incited to kill Dink by Hayal.
Regnum, Russia
Jan 22 2007
The International Herald Tribune in its report on murder of
Armenian-language Agos newspaper editor Hrant Dink says that instigator
of the murder Yasin Hayal was trained at camps for Chechen militants
in Azerbaijan. The article published today says that Yasin Hayal was
convicted in the bombing of a McDonald's restaurant in Trabzon in
2004 and had said to police that he learned how to make bombs from
Chechen militants in a camp in Azerbaijan.
As spokesman for the Azerbaijani National Security Ministry Arif
Babayev told Mediaforum, statements of the author of the article
grounds upon no facts. "I am very sorry that such a respectable
newspaper published such inadequate information. Opinions about Chechen
camps in Azerbaijani were sounded before. But no such opinion was
confirmed. There no facts, no proofs, no evidence. And there cannot
be. I do not rule out hostile actions in such publication coming out."
Editor of Agos newspaper Hrant Dink was shot dead on January 19. Ogun
Samast, 17, was arrested as a suspect of killing the editor. During the
investigation, Samast announced he was incited to kill Dink by Hayal.