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    ERHAN TUNCEL TO BE PRESENTED TO JUSTICE

    16:45, 2 October, 2013

    YEREVAN, OCTOBER 2, ARMENPRESS: Erhan Tuncel, the suspect of the
    murder of the editor-in-chief of the Armenian newspaper Agos Hrant
    Dink, is preparing for the judicial protection, after which he will
    be presented to the justice voluntarily. As reported by Armenpress,
    quoting the Turkish Demokrathaber.net, this was stated by Erdoğan
    Soruklu, the lawyer of Erhan Tuncel.

    Erdoğan Soruklu noted that his defendant did not contact to anyone
    after the court's decision on the arrest of Tuncel. "Erhan Tuncel
    is in Turkey. He has not fled to anywhere. He will be presented to
    justice soon. Tuncel does not want to meet anyone at this moment. He
    is currently preparing for his evidences. When he finishes with it,
    Tuncel will decide when to be presented", - said the lawyer.

    Earlier it was reported that in the framework of the trial on Hrant
    Dink's murder case, the prosecutor informed that in July Erhan Tuncel
    was called to give evidences but the representatives of the security
    services could not find him.

    On September 17 the Istanbul 14th High Criminal Court began a review
    of the trial of the 2007 killing of the Armenian journalist Hrant Dink
    and made a decision to arrest Erhan Tuncel again for the participation
    in the assassination. Suspect Hacı Sarıoğlu and Yasin Hayal, who was
    convicted to life imprisonment, were present at the court hearings.

    The Court hearing has been canceled till December 3, 2013. Previously,
    the Dink family protested the judiciary system and said it would not
    attend the hearings. A written statement sent to press by the Dink
    family said the family will no longer attend the hearings to avoid
    being part of the "games played by the state mechanisms." Before the
    launch of the court hearings Hrant Dink's friends organized a protest
    action in front of the Court's building.

    Hrant Dink was born on September 15, 1954. He was a Turkish-Armenian
    editor, journalist and columnist. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual
    Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, Dink was a prominent member of the
    Armenian minority in Turkey. Dink was best known for advocating
    Turkish-Armenian reconciliation and human and minority rights in
    Turkey; he was often critical of Turkey's denial of the Armenian
    Genocide. Hrant Dink was assassinated in Istanbul in January 2007,
    by Ogun Samast, a 17-year old Turkish nationalist. This was shortly
    after the premiere of the genocide documentary Screamers, in which
    he is interviewed about Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide of
    1915 and the case against him under Article 301. While Samast has
    since been taken into custody, photographs of the assassin flanked by
    smiling Turkish police and gendarmerie, posing with the killer side
    by side in front of the Turkish flag, have since surfaced. The photos
    created a scandal in Turkey, prompting a spate of investigations
    and the removal from office of those involved. At his funeral, two
    hundred thousand mourners marched in protest of the assassination,
    chanting "We are all Armenians" and "We are all Hrant Dink". Criticism
    of Article 301 became increasingly vocal after his death, leading to
    parliamentary proposals for repeal. The 2007-2008 academic year at
    the College of Europe was named in his honor.

    http://armenpress.am/eng/news/735187/erhan-tuncel-to-be-presented-to-justice.html

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