{"id":152772,"date":"2012-01-11T12:36:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T08:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=152772"},"modified":"2012-01-11T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T09:00:08","slug":"imprisoned-dink-murder-suspect-says-his-life-is-in-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/01\/11\/imprisoned-dink-murder-suspect-says-his-life-is-in-danger.html","title":{"rendered":"Imprisoned Dink Murder Suspect Says His Life is in Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the 24th hearing of the Hrant Dink case, suspect Yasin Hayal claimed he was being threatened by prison guards and requested they be interrogated, the Hurriyet Daily News<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been used by the Turkish Republic, and now they want to eliminate me. My life is in danger and the state will be responsible if anything happens to me,\u201d suspect Hayal said in court.<\/p>\n

Hayal further alleged that many figures ranging from Erhan Tuncel to Ramazan Aky\u00fcrek had taken advantage of him and exploited his poverty. \u201cTuncel persuaded me that our lives would be much better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never knew Tuncel was a state agent. I respected him because he was the head of Alperen Ocaklar\u0131 [an extreme right-wing group]. I met him in 2002 and he introduced me to a lot of figures, including police officers. I do not recall any names, however. I was involved directly with Tuncel, and you ought to ask him about the names,\u201d Hayal said.<\/p>\n

Hayal also indicated they had a meeting in the Black Sea province of Trabzon with some people who had arrived from Istanbul, and it was here that Og\u00fcn Samast was selected as the triggerman.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the phone records provided to the court by Turkey\u2019s Telecommunications Directorate (T\u0130B) included the numbers of certain individuals who have been in contact with case suspects, said one of the defendant\u2019s lawyers in the case of murdered Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not true that there was no one connected to the suspects being tried in your court in the records sent by the T\u0130B, containing some 6,235 interviews and 9,300 numbers. The existence of a direct connection between case suspects and certain phone numbers in the records has been established,\u201d said Fethiye \u00c7etin, one of the Dink family\u2019s lawyers, during the trial yesterday.<\/p>\n

Five persons bearing a connection to the suspects and who were present at the crime scene have been identified through examining the records, \u00c7etin said, adding that the connection between case suspects and another 14 persons who were missing from the crime scene but were called from there had also been determined.<\/p>\n

Tuncel\u2019s lawyer, Erdo\u011fan Soruklu, also agreed with the Dink lawyers and said some of the phone records were deleted.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor\u2019s office has accepted the lawyers\u2019 demand to examine the phone records of individuals allegedly connected to the case suspects in detail and subsequently ruled to request the relevant information from the T\u0130B. Still, prosecutor Hikmet Usta denied the lawyers\u2019 claims and said they previously directed all the records to counterterrorism police and all records were analyzed.<\/p>\n

Usta further claimed Dink was not killed due to his Armenian identity; the prosecutor said his murder was part of a political murder tradition related to a terror organization within the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI have been used by the Turkish Republic, and now they want to eliminate me. My life is in danger and the state will be responsible if anything happens to me…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}