ISTANBUL. – During the next court hearing into the murder of Hrant Dink—the founder and former chief editor of Istanbul’s Agos Armenian weekly, who was killed in 2007—the Dink family’s attorney, Fethiye Cetin, informed that, at the moment of Hrant Dink’s murder, five unidentified people in the vicinity of the incident were in contact with the killers.

Cetin noted they examined the recordings of the telephone conversations that were made on the day of the murder and at the vicinity of the incident, Zaman daily of Turkey informs.  

Fethiye Cetin also said they examined the telephone calls that were made, and the telephone numbers that were dialed, on that day, among which five persons, or telephone numbers, were in the vicinity of the murder and they had direct contact with Hrant Dink’s killers. She also stressed that fourteen others, who were not in the vicinity, again were in telephone contact with the defendants.   

To note, Turkey’s telecommunication department for a long time was refusing to submit to the court the list of telephone calls that were made in the vicinity of Hrant Dink’s murder. And the court had requested, several times, that the department promptly submit the recordings of those calls.