Joint Investigation Hope on Police in Hrant Dink Case

Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office requested Trabzon Province Prosecutor’s Office to join investigation regarding police negligence in the case of Hrant Dink, an Armenian journalist murdered by a Turkish nationalist in Istanbul in 2007. 

Upon Trabzon Prosecutor’s Office approval, the aforementioned policemen may be tried under one investigation for negligence charges. 

The investigation will include that period’s top police officers including Istanbul police commissioner Celalettin Cerrah, Istanbul Police Intelligence Chief Ali Fuat Yılmazer, Intelligence Chamber Chairman Ramazan Akyürek and other bureaucrats with police background. 

Bakırcıoğlu: Positive decision 

Hakan Bakırcıoğlu, one of the advocates of Dink family, told bianet the following: “There is the possibility that the two cases are going to be merged. It must have happened already. In this case, it is a positive decision.”

“A crime organization” 

Concerning the case on the murder of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, Istanbul 5^th High Criminal Court decided on October 30 to follow a ruling of Court of Appeals that ruled the retrial of defendants for charges under a crime organization. 

Previously, the court also ruled the merging of the case of Ogün Samast - a then underaged nationalist who killed Hrant Dink - with the main Hrant Dink case. (EÖ/BM).

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