Activists Demand Justice for Murdered Hrant Dink

More than 200 people gathered before the court hearing in Beşiktaş. They once again demanded investigations into allegations of involvement against state and security officials.

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"Where are those who ordered this murder? Where are the police officers who had been controlling the main suspects since the McDonald's combing in Trabzon? Where are the officials who raced to declare their sympathies for the accused? Where are the gendarmerie officers who knew the type of the murder gun, before the murder? None of them are on trial."

Activists and right defenders gathered this morning in Beşiktaş once again to declare their demand for justice for the killing of Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink on 19 January 2007.

Actress Derya Alabora and actor Mahir Günşıray read the press statement. They protested that investigations against state officials allegedly involved in the killing or failed to prevent it are systematically blocked.

Among those participated at the meeting are as follows:

Ümit Fırat, Muhsin Kızılkaya, Doğan Tarkan, Sema Kılıçer, Zeynep Tanbay, Feza Kürkçüoğlu, Ufuk Uras, Takuhi Tovmasyan, Oral Çalışlar, Osman Kavala, Hakan Tahmaz, Nilgün Yurdalan, Erol Kızılelma, Cengiz Aktar, İpek Çalışlar, Bağış Erten, Kenan Işık, Deniz Tuna, Zeynep Taşkın, Gençay Gürsoy, Murat Çelikkan, Tayfun Mater, Yasemin Göksu, Sırrı Süreyya Önder, Özlem Altıparmak, Ayşe Gül Altınay, Mehmet Demir, Mehmet Atak, Yıldırım Türker.(BÇ/EZÖ/AGÜ)