The assassination of Agos editor-in-chief Hrant Dink was a crime of forethought, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told journalists when commenting on the arrest of officials on charges of "negligence over the murder" of Hrant Dink.
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Erdogan does not think the matter concerns negligence. He added that the details of the case will be found out.
To note, Ercan Demir, the Police Chief of Sirnak province's Cizre district in southeastern Turkey, was wanted in an arrest warrant as part of an investigation into the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. The arrest came on the day when journalist Hrant Dink was commemorated in central Istanbul on the 8th anniversary of the murder. The Istanbul Court that issued the arrest warrant for Ercan Demir accused the police chief of "negligence over the murder." Dink, the late editor-in-chief of Turkish- Armenian weekly Agos, was shot and killed in broad daylight on January 19, 2007, by an ultranationalist teenager outside the offices of his newspaper in Istanbul. The trial on Dink's case had a shameful end. Who was behind the assassination remains undisclosed, while certain facts and evidence presented in court have not been studied. On 17 January, 2011, the court set free one of the main suspects in the murder Erhan Tuncel. Ogun Samast was sentenced to 22 years and 10 months in jail, while Yasin Hayal charged with incitement to murder was sentenced to life imprisonment. On September 2013 the trial was resumed.