FORMER POLICE INTEL OFFICER GIVES TESTIMONY IN HRANT DINK CASE
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Dec 24 2014
ISTANBUL – Dogan News Agency
Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink was assassinated in 2007 in
a murder that sent Turkey into commotion.
Former Trabzon police intelligence branch chief Faruk Sarı gave his
testimony to Istanbul’s prosecutor as a suspect in the murder case
of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink in 2007.
The prosecutor had demanded the arrest of Sarı for his role in the
“intended murder that took place due to negligence.” However, an
Istanbul court decided that Sarı would be tried without arrest on
probation on Dec. 24.
Prosecutor Gökalp Kökcu interrogated Sarı on Dec. 24 as part of
the ongoing trial. The Dink murder case is being retried after the
Interior Ministry allowed the prosecution of several public officials
who were accused of negligence in the course of events which ended
in the murder.
Dink was assassinated by Ogun Samast, who is serving 22 years and
10 months in a high-security F-type prison, in broad daylight on
a busy street outside the office of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian
weekly Agos in Istanbul’s Ã…~^iÃ…~_li district on Jan. 19, 2007. The
assassination caused outrage across the country, sending hundreds of
thousands to the streets in mass rallies.
When the prosecutor asked why he did not took any measures to prevent
the murder, Sarı responded that he had no information about the murder
attempt. The prosecutor sent him to the court, demanding his arrest.
The court released Sarı on probation. The investigation into Dink’s
murder took a different path after the government launched a fight
against the so-called “parallel structure,” which the government uses
to refer to the movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah
Gulen. The Justice Ministry has cleared the way for investigations
into nine civil servants accused of negligence in Dink’s murder.
December/24/2014
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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