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HRANT DINK FAMILY DEMANDS NEW INVESTIGATION
PanARMENIAN.Net
March 23, 2012 - 19:38 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The family of Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian
journalist who was assassinated outside his newspaper's office in
2007, but most of whose murderers were allowed to walk free following
a court ruling last month, have demanded a new investigation into
various individuals in the police and gendarmerie forces who seem
to be implicated according to a probe conducted by the State Audit
Institution (DDK), Today's Zaman reported.
The İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court announced the ruling on
the Dink murder in January, saying there was no involvement of an
organized criminal network, which lawyers for the Dink family say is
hardly convincing.
However, a report on the case by the DDK, which also investigated the
murder under orders from President Abdullah Gul, tells a different
story. Released in February of this year, the DDK report has revealed
that mistakes were made in the investigation of public officials
who were suspected of having acted negligently in their efforts to
prevent the murder.
The investigation into Dink's death revealed that the police had
been tipped off about the plans to murder the journalist; however,
the police failed to intervene. The DDK report said the sequence
of negligent acts by public officials was not examined as a whole
and no independent investigations were launched into the different
state institutions involved. It said the method adopted during
the investigation of public officials led to the failure of not
investigating all allegations about public officials as a whole.
The Dink family petitioned the Bakırköy Prosecutor's Office on
Thursday, calling for the start of a new investigation into the
role of officials in the run-up to the murder. "The DDK report has
obviously approached the matter meticulously and using an approach more
comprehensive than any other investigation that has been carried out
before, resulting in new findings and evidence," the petition said,
noting the judiciary should consider the new evidence presented in
the DDK report. The Dink family called for a thorough search of all
gendarmerie records, including confidential archives, regarding the
tip-offs that came at the time Dink's assassination was being plotted
by a group of young men in the Black Sea city of Trabzon.
The court convicted Yasin Hayal, a major suspect in the killing of
Turkish-Armenian journalist Dink, of instigating a murder and sentenced
him to life in prison. Another suspected instigator, Erhan Tuncel,
was acquitted by the court. Tuncel and some of the other suspects
have proven connections with the Trabzon Police Department and some
gendarmerie officials in the city.
From: A. Papazian
PanARMENIAN.Net
March 23, 2012 - 19:38 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The family of Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian
journalist who was assassinated outside his newspaper's office in
2007, but most of whose murderers were allowed to walk free following
a court ruling last month, have demanded a new investigation into
various individuals in the police and gendarmerie forces who seem
to be implicated according to a probe conducted by the State Audit
Institution (DDK), Today's Zaman reported.
The İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court announced the ruling on
the Dink murder in January, saying there was no involvement of an
organized criminal network, which lawyers for the Dink family say is
hardly convincing.
However, a report on the case by the DDK, which also investigated the
murder under orders from President Abdullah Gul, tells a different
story. Released in February of this year, the DDK report has revealed
that mistakes were made in the investigation of public officials
who were suspected of having acted negligently in their efforts to
prevent the murder.
The investigation into Dink's death revealed that the police had
been tipped off about the plans to murder the journalist; however,
the police failed to intervene. The DDK report said the sequence
of negligent acts by public officials was not examined as a whole
and no independent investigations were launched into the different
state institutions involved. It said the method adopted during
the investigation of public officials led to the failure of not
investigating all allegations about public officials as a whole.
The Dink family petitioned the Bakırköy Prosecutor's Office on
Thursday, calling for the start of a new investigation into the
role of officials in the run-up to the murder. "The DDK report has
obviously approached the matter meticulously and using an approach more
comprehensive than any other investigation that has been carried out
before, resulting in new findings and evidence," the petition said,
noting the judiciary should consider the new evidence presented in
the DDK report. The Dink family called for a thorough search of all
gendarmerie records, including confidential archives, regarding the
tip-offs that came at the time Dink's assassination was being plotted
by a group of young men in the Black Sea city of Trabzon.
The court convicted Yasin Hayal, a major suspect in the killing of
Turkish-Armenian journalist Dink, of instigating a murder and sentenced
him to life in prison. Another suspected instigator, Erhan Tuncel,
was acquitted by the court. Tuncel and some of the other suspects
have proven connections with the Trabzon Police Department and some
gendarmerie officials in the city.
From: A. Papazian