ISTANBUL. – Two police officers have been arrested within the framework of the case into the murder of Hrant Dink, the founder and chief editor of Agos Armenian weekly of Istanbul, who was shot dead on January 19, 2007 outside the office his weekly.

Policemen Ozkan Mumcu and Muhittin Zenit were arrested as suspects along the lines of the new investigation into the murder case, Agos reported.

These police officers are charged with knowing but doing nothing about the planned assassination of Dink.

Mumcu was a ranking officer at the police department in Trabzon city, where the slain Armenian journalist’s killer Ogun Samast hails from, and Zenit was a rank-and-file policeman at the time of Hrant Dink’s murder.