ISTANBUL. – The prosecutor’s office of the Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals has asked the top court to overturn the rulings in the murder case of Hrant Dink—the founder and chief editor of Istanbul’s Agos Armenian bilingual weekly, who was gunned down in 2007 in front of his office building—, arguing that the assassination was organized.

In the formal appeal of the prosecutor’s office, it is noted that the murder was coordinated and planned by a criminal group, which intended to cause chaos in society, weaken authority, disrupt the unity and territorial integrity of the state, and put the country in a disturbing position, Agos reports.

It was noted that the aforesaid rulings need to be reviewed, since a criminal group is involved in Dink’s assassination.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, on January 17, 2012 the Turkish court found Yasin Hayal guilty of planning and organizing Hrant Dink’s murder, and sentenced him to life in prison. Erhan Tuncel, on the other hand, was found not guilty of prompting Dink’s murder, and, instead, he was sentenced to ten years and six months for an explosion in a McDonald’s restaurant. But taking into account that Tuncel was already incarcerated for that amount of time, the court ruled his release.

The court also found the nineteen other defendants not guilty of being members of a terrorist organization.

And earlier, Hrant Dink’s actual killer, Ogun Samast, was sentenced to a total of twenty-two years and ten months for Dink’s murder and for bearing illegal arms. But Samast was tried at a juvenile court, since he was a minor at the time of the murder.