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| Trabzon intelligence police knew about Dink's hitman before murder |
| 2015-10-10 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] An Istanbul prosecutor has unearthed files which show that Trabzon police intelligence had known about Ogun Samast, the hitman in Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink's murder, before the incident took place. Gökalp Kökcu, the chief public prosecutor heading the investigation, believes that the Trabzon police intelligence unit was told by Erhan Tuncel, a police informant at the time, that a person named Ogun had been chosen as the hitman for Dink's murder before the incident took place in Istanbul in January 2007. Samast assassinated Dink in broad daylight on a busy street outside of the office of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos in Istanbul's Sisli district. Samast is serving a sentence of 22 years and 10 months in a high-security prison. Yasin Hayal and Tuncel were accused of encouraging Samast to kill Dink in the Black Sea province of Trabzon. |
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