Meet At Beşiktaş Square, For Hrant, For Justice

Hrant Dink’s friends are asking for public’s interest in the sixth hearing of the murder case that will be heard at Istanbul’s 14^th High Criminal Court tomorrow (July 7) morning with the call “To the court for Hrant, for Justice! It has been 1 year. What happened?”

They will gather at Beşiktaş Square at 9.30 in the morning to support justice for Hrant Dink, slained founder and chief editor of Agos, an Armenian/Turkish weekly.

"We do not shut up, we do not give up. We want justice”

Hrant’s friends remind everyone that it has been 535 days since Hrant was killed and 534 days since his killer was caught, but nothing has really been accomplished in the last five hearings.

They criticize the trial process by asking how long they will have to wait so that the judicial process will see the facts, although O.S. became Ogün Samast and the story of how he killed Hrant was told many times.

“We will again be at the court for Hrant, for justice,” say Hrant’s friends. “They want us to shut up. We did not shut up. We did not give up. We are not shutting up; we are not giving up. We wanted justice. We want to witness the revelation of justice. We are gathering for Hrant, for justice.

The court will hear accused Coskun İğci and the other witnesses

It is expected that since Ogün Samast is eighteen now the trial will be open to the media. The court will hear Coskun İğci, gendarmerie informant and former husband of Yasin Hayal’s aunt.

The court will receive information from close to ten witnesses.

A witness in the Trabzon Gendarmerie case, İğci is the 19^th accused in İstanbul

Gendarmerie informant İğci was added to the case as the 19^th accused, but he was not able to testify in his first appearance since he did not have his lawyer. (EÖ/EZÖ/TB)