A shocking development has occurred in connection with Turkish journalist Muammer Ay, who is among the recently detained along the lines of the case into the murder of Istanbul Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.
After the murder, a ticket in the name of “Mr. Ogün” was booked for Dink’s murderer Ogün Samast, for a bus heading from Istanbul to Trabzon town, according to Sözcü newspaper of Turkey.
At the time when Turkish police still did not know who had killed Dink, journalist Ay had called the police informing that Ogün Samast, the person who killed Hrant Dink, was heading from Istanbul to Samsun town on a bus.
Police had detained Samast near the Samsun bus terminal.
The questioning of Muammer Ay and the other detained new suspects is still in progress.
Journalist Hrant Dink, the founder and chief editor of Agos Armenian bilingual weekly of Istanbul, was gunned down on January 19, 2007 in front of then office of Agos.
In 2011, the perpetrator, Ogün Samast, was sentenced by a juvenile court to 22 years and ten months for the murder.
After long court proceedings and appeals, however, a new probe was ultimately launched in this murder case, and regarding numerous former and serving senior Turkish officials’ complicity in this assassination.
