Turkish soldier denies any information on Dink murder

"I don't remember any document regarding the assassination of Hrant Dink," Colonel Ali Oz, the gendarmerie field officer of Trabzon at the time of incident said in his interrogation in the northwestern province of Bursa.

 

Oz and Captain Metin Yildiz claimed for failing to act on information received prior to the assassination. Turkey's northeastern province Trabzon governor's office gave the permission for the investigation after assessing a report of the inspectors from the Turkish Interior Ministry on Sunday.

 

Dink, editor in chief of Agos newspaper, was shot dead outside the offices of the paper in Istanbul in January, 2007. Police arrested the gunman and a suspected associate who was identified as Yasin Hayal.  Â

 

The trial began in July 2007. Prosecutors have asked for a prison term of 18 to 24 years for Dink's assassin Ogun Samast and life sentences for two key suspects, Erhan Tuncel and Hayal for inciting to murder.

 

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