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  • ANKARA: Eyewitness Says Osman Hayal Was Accomplice To Dink's Murdere

    EYEWITNESS SAYS OSMAN HAYAL WAS ACCOMPLICE TO DINK'S MURDERER

    Today's Zaman
    Sept 2 2008
    Turkey

    An anonymous eyewitness in the murder case of Turkish-Armenian
    journalist Hrant Dink, shot dead by a teenager over a year ago,
    confirmed that Osman Hayal was with Ogun Samast at the time of
    the murder.

    The eyewitness stated that Osman Hayal -- the elder brother of Yasin
    Hayal, who instigated the murder -- was with Samast, who was 17 at
    the time of the murder, when he murdered Dink on Jan. 19, 2007, in
    broad daylight outside the office of Agos, a newspaper where Dink
    was the editor-in-chief. Osman Hayal denies the eyewitness's claims.

    The anonymous eyewitness said: "Osman Hayal and another person with
    curly hair were there. They were standing in front of an Akbank
    on the street. After the event happened, Osman Hayal turned to the
    other two people and nodded. After that he escaped in the direction
    of Mecidiyeköy."

    Osman Hayal rejects the claims, but police sources note that there
    were serious discrepancies in Hayal's depositions. Hayal claims that
    he got on a bus at around 3 p.m. and for this reason emphasized he
    was on the bus at 4 p.m. when the event took place. "I do not know
    exactly where I was when the event took place, but I was probably
    going to Trabzon by bus." A bus takes about 18 hours to travel from
    Ä°stanbul to Trabzon but Hayal also claims that he learned about the
    incident while watching TV with his mother. However, according to
    Hayal's claim about his being on the bus, he could not have been in
    Trabzon before noon of the next day. He missed this important detail.

    Osman Hayal had claimed previously that he was not in Ä°stanbul on
    the day of murder but later it was proved that his mobile phone
    signaled from Ä°stanbul's Umraniye district on Jan. 19, 2007, at
    11:27 a.m. Responding to why he lied, Hayal said: "I said I was in
    Trabzon because I was very sad and bothered as my brother was involved
    in this event. I said this because I was deeply hurt. I did not say
    that I was in Ä°stanbul thinking that it would change anything as I
    was not involved in this event."

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