HRANT DINK’S MURDER CASE SOLUTION IS A KEY TO OTHER POLITICAL CRIMES: FETHIYE CETIN
15:17, 13 September, 2013
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 13, ARMENPRESS. The Turkish state makes effort to
consign Hrant Dink’s murder to oblivion, notwithstanding the Turkish
society will never forget this crime and refuses to be involved in
it. As reports “Armenpress”, Fethiye Cetin, Hrant Dink’s family lawyer,
stated this in her new book titled “I am Ashamed:
Trials on Hrant Dink’s Murder Trial”. Turkish Radikal periodical
published some parts of the aforesaid books.
Fethiye Cetin emphasized that a man called Ramazan, who introduced
himself as a worker of the Chief Department of the National Security
Service of Eastern Anatolia region, called Cetin in March 2010 and said
that he has important documents regarding Hrant Dink’s murder. She
got in touch with Ramazan via Skype, who showed her secret documents
with the emblem of the National Intelligence Service on it. The
unknown person told her that secret cryptograms are used in all the
documents. Dink’s lawyer tells how they managed to read Dink’s name
via Cyrillic alphabet in the aforesaid documents.
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 honour.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
