Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed hope that the Supreme Court of Appeals “will clear up doubts” with regards to the case concerning the 2007 killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist, Agos weekly editor Hrant Dink, Today's Zaman reported.

“The [trial] process has not been completed yet. I hope the judiciary will clear up doubts and take steps that will ease the public's conscience,” Erdoğan said in Ankara during the launch of an urban transformation project on Friday, Jan 20. “No plot or provocation will remain secret. No murder will remain unsolved,” he added.

In what many said was a shocking and frustrating ruling for the five-year-long trial of the Dink case, the Istanbul 14th High Criminal Court cleared all suspects of charges of acting on orders from a criminal organization, angering lawyers and many others who say the trial failed to shed light on alleged connections between the suspects and state officials. The ruling sparked nationwide outrage with tens of thousands of people protesting the verdict on the fifth anniversary of Dink's death.