Parliament's Human Rights Committee To Hear Gendarmerie Officers Over Dink Case

ANKARA - Head of a human rights committee of the Turkish parliament said on Thursday that the committee would soon hear a number of gendarmerie officers over a case on the killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.
"In the coming days, these gendarmerie officers will gather with the committee and we will hear them," Zafer Uskul, the chairman, said.
Dink was shot dead outside the offices of his Agos newspaper in Istanbul in January 2007. Police arrested the gunman and a suspected associate who was identified as Yasin Hayal.
Acting on the testimonies of two gendarmerie officers who were arrested on the charges of "neglect of duty," a court in the Black Sea province of Trabzon ordered a probe against 10 other gendarmerie officers, including a colonel.
Lawyers of Dink`s family have said in a petition that "the probed gendarmerie officers had known that Hayal and his friends had been making plans to kill Dink as early as July 2006, but they had failed to take necessary measures in an open neglect of duty."
(YMB-EÖ)