Trabzon Police officers rendered Dink murder possible - family

PanARMENIAN.Net - Ten lawyers applied on behalf of five members of the Dink family to the Sisli (Istanbul) Criminal Court of First Instance. They demand to annul the decision of the Rize (eastern Black Sea coast) High Criminal Court regarding the closing of the proceedings against the officials of the Trabzon Police Directorate.

The lawyers claimed that the statements made by the former Trabzon Chief of Police, Resat Altay, the former Deputy Chief of Police, Emin Arslan, and Police Chief Inspector Levent Yarimel confirm the allegations put forward together with the statements of the Trabzon police officers made until today. The lawyers requested to launch a trial against the Trabzon police officers by taking into account the "new evidence" that emerged from the statements given by Arslan, Yarimel and Altay at the Public Chief Prosecution of Istanbul, Ankara and Fatih.

Altay gave his statement to the Istanbul Fatih Chief Prosecution on March 28 that was then forwarded to the Trabzon Public Chief Prosecution. Altay stated that he had no information about the assassination plot against Dink. "If I had been informed, I would have taken all possible measures,” he said.

The family of slain journalist Hrant Dink applied once more for the prosecution of the police officers of the Trabzon Police Directorate. The lawyers of the Dink family filed another petition because the police officers on duty in Trabzon (eastern Black Sea coast) at the time failed to thwart the assassination plot they had allegedly been informed about and thus rendered the murder possible, Bianet reported.

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