Police Chief Says Intelligence on Dink’s Assassination Was Sent to Istanbul Police

September 14, 2015
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was shot dead by an ultranationalist teenager outside his office in İstanbul on Jan. 19, 2007 (Source: Today's Zaman)

Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was shot dead by an ultranationalist teenager outside his office in İstanbul on Jan. 19, 2007 (Source: Today’s Zaman)

ISTANBUL (Today’s Zaman)””Engin Dinc, head of the Turkish National Police Department’s Intelligence Unit who led the Trabzon Intelligence Unit at the time of the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in 2007, said in recent testimony to the Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office that intelligence on Dink’s murder was passed to the Istanbul Police Department in February 2006.

Today’s Zaman learned that Dinc, who is a key suspect in the murder trial of Dink, gave his testimony before the Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office secretly and revealed that they had received information about a probable assassination of Dink in Trabzon, which was sent to Istanbul police in a letter numbered 027248 on February 17, 2006. “I also phoned the chief of the Intelligence Unit of the Istanbul Police Department about the intelligence,”

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