ISTANBUL. – Hakan Bakircioglu, attorney of Agos Armenian weekly of Istanbul, has applied to the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor’s Office.   

The attorney petitioned the office to launch an investigation into the cyberattack on Agos, and the threat that was made against weekly’s editor-in-chief Rober Koptas.       

The petition, which was submitted to the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor’s Office, pointed to the cyberattack that was made on Agos’ website on January 20 and 25, as a result of which the website was hacked, Agos reports.       

The petition also noted that threats and profanities were made against Koptas via Twitter.