“This means new violations and more threats, and we are already seeing the signs of this,” Şebnem Korur Fincancı said.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Sezgin Tanrıkulu also criticized PM Erdoğan.

The Constitutional Court found that the probe in the Dink murder case violated the principle of effective investigation.

A lawyer for the Dink family confirmed that it is now legally possible for a probe against Güngör, Cerrah, Güler and six police officers.

Akyürek also served as the head of the police in the Black Sea province of Trabzon between December 2003 and May 2006.

The court approved the sentences given to suspects but overturned the decision that acquitted them of crime gang connections.

Akkaş, who was previously one of the prosecutors in the Ergenekon coup plot case, has decided to deepen the Dink investigation.

The Istanbul court marked the fifth anniversary of assassination of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the Armenian-Turkish newspaper “Agos”, in a very peculiar manner: one of the organizers of assassination, Yasin Hayal is sentenced to life imprisonment for incitement to murder, 18 suspects are released to freedom, including Erhan Tuncel, who together with Hayal planned the assassination. The court also resolved that Dink’s murder did not result from conspiracy of a radical group...

Tuncel said that “there is an organized network behind the murder,” in responding to questions e-mailed to his lawyer.