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    Emil Lazarian
  • 5 years ago
    • Categories: 2021

Turkey arrests another former intelligence officer in Hrant Dink murder case

Panorama, Armenia
Jan 13 2021
 
 
Turkish security forces arrested another former gendarmerie intelligence officer on Tuesday, following a court ruling related to the killing of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.
 
Police officers found Okan Simsek in western Manisa province, Anadolu Agency reported, citing a security source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media. An arrest warrant was issued for Simsek by Heavy Penal Court No.14 in Istanbul.
 
He was nabbed at an address in Yunusemre district and jailed after being referred to a courthouse, the source added.
 
Earlier last week, the Istanbul court ordered the arrest of two former gendarmerie intelligence officers – Volkan Sahin and Veysal Sahin – in the same case.
 
Dink, then editor-in-chief of the Armenian daily Agos, was shot dead outside his office on January 19, 2007.
 
Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS