28 public officials included in investigation on Hrant Dink’s assassination case
Hrant Dink’s lawyer Fethiye Cetin declared on Monday at court hearing of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink’s assassination case which was launched in 2007 that new facts have been revealed which should be taken into consideration, “Ermenihaber.am” news web site reports.
The investigation will include 28 public officials - former Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler, former Istanbul Police Chief Celalettin Cerrah, former director of the Trabzon Police Department Resat Altay, former head of Intelligence Department of the General Directorate of Security (TNP) Ramazan Akyurek and former commander of the Trabzon Gendarmerie Battalion Colonel Ali Oz following repeated demands from the Dink family lawyers for a new investigation to be launched into several public officials who were allegedly negligent in their duty to protect Dink.
Dink family lawyer Fethiye Cetin said at the hearing that some new evidence must be taken into consideration by the court as evidence presented in two new books might shed light into some events related to Dink's murder by ultranationalist teenager Ogun Samast outside the offices of his newspaper Agos in broad daylight in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007.