“The slain Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink was the first “elected target” of instigators of the Sledgehammer plan, a suspected military plot to overthrow the government,” Turkish Zaman daily reports referring to the Star daily.

“The instigators planned to assassinate opponents of the planned coup using professional gendarmes. Among other “targets” were Star columnist Professor Mehmet Altan, Milliyet columnist Hasan Cemal, Professor Toktamıs Ates, Agos Editor-in-Chief Etyen Mahcupyan, sociologist Ali Bulac, Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew, Armenian Patriarch Mesrob Mutafyan and former Vatican representative George Marovic,” the source says.

The subversive plan is mentioned in details in the civilian indictment for the Sledgehammer document.

Dink’s brother, Orhan Dink, said his family will decide whether it will become a co-plaintiff in the Sledgehammer case once its lawyers examine the indictment. “We will become co-plaintiffs if we are required to,” he noted.

Hrant Dink, once the editor-in-chief of Agos, was shot dead in 2007 by an ultranationalist Turkish adolescent.