Dink Killed Just as 100th Anniv of Favorite Football Team Marked

[Nalbandian Albert]

DINK IS KILLED JUST IN 2007 AS 100th ANNIVERSARY OF FOOTBALL TEAM
PREFERRED BY MURDERER IS MARKED THIS YEAR

ISTANBUL, MAY 11, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Yasin Hayal, one of
the main defendants arrested on the case of Agos weekly
editor-in-chief Hrant Dink's murder sent a letter from the prison to
the Prosecutor's General Office of Istanbul where it is also spoken
about the case of Dink's murder.

According to the Turkish press, Yasin Hayal wrote in his letter, that
they, finding it difficult to organize an encroachment upon Orhan
Pamuk, decided to kill Hrant Dink: "Erhan Tuncel wanted that we kill
Hrant Dink just on April 24. And when I asked why just on that day he
responded that the date was chosen by Armenians as the day of memory
of the genocide. But in late 2006 Tuncel started insisting that the
deed must be brought to its end soon. And I, a fanatic admirer of the
Fenerbahce team, said that few days remained till 2007 and proposed to
kill Dink just at that time as the 100th anniversary of Fenerbahce
team would be marked in 2007," Yasin Hayal wrote in his letter.