Appeal of Murdered Journalists Widow

Rakel Dink, widow of the murdered ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, has appealed to Prime Minister Erdogan to let the Prime Ministerial Review Committee investigate the case further. Her letter has not been answered.

Erol Önderoğlu

Rakel Dink, the wife of journalist Hrant Dink who was murdered on 19 January this year, has called for the murder to be investigated by the Prime Ministerial Review Committee. In a letter she sent to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on 18 April, she writes that the investigation has so far been unsatisfactory, and that the Review Committee should be charged with investigating the exact circumstances of her husband's murder.

Indictment is Worrying

Rakel Dink wants to avoid her husband's murder being compared to other extra-judicial killings. One of the Dink family's lawyers, Erdan Dogan, complained to bianet that although the letter was sent to the Prime Minister before the indictment had been made public, the widow has received no answer.

According to Dogan, the request for the investigation to be pursued by the Prime Minsterial Review Committee is based on the desire to leave in Turkey in peace and to bring to light the truth about Dink's murder. The indictment, which was published after Rakel Dink's letter, proves her worries to be right.

A trial against 18 people, many of them from the Black Sea city of Trabzon, will start at an Istanbul Heavy Penal Court on 2 July. Because the young man accused of killing Hrant Dink is under age, the press will not be admitted. (EÖ/TK/AG)

Origin

Bıa news centre

Erol Önderoğlu

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A graduate of the French Language and Literature Department at İstanbul University. He has served as the Turkey representative for the international organization Reporters Without...

A graduate of the French Language and Literature Department at İstanbul University. He has served as the Turkey representative for the international organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF), where he began as a reporter in 1996. Since 1999, he has worked at bianet, a project of the IPS Communication Foundation, as the coordinator of the Legal Support Desk, editor for freedom of expression, and editor-in-chief. He has authored more than 4,800 signed news articles and opinion pieces. He has also written for Bizim Gazete and the journal Güncel Hukuk. He currently prepares the Media Monitoring Reports at bianet.