Police have taken into custody three people in connection with the assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink on Friday and appear close to solving the case. "There are three people in custody. We are very close to solving the case. We have definitive evidence," Istanbul governor Muammer Guler told reporters. The police were working in cooperation with a group of experts sent from the capital Ankara on "documents, footage and witness testimonies", Guler added.
The 53-year-old Dink, who angered nationalist circles and the courts with his views on the 1915-1918 massacres of Armenians, was shot dead outside the offices of the Agos weekly, which he edited, in the busy Sisli district in the European side of the city. Initial media reports had said that police were looking for a man in his late teens, wearing a denim jacket and a white cap, while Anatolia reported that witnesses saw a man in his late 20s running from the scene.