You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Europe
Accomplice in Dink Murder Trained in Chechen Camp in Azerbaijan?
2007-01-23
Gateway Pundit is all over this.
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The investigators of Hrant Dink’s assassination informed that a group of nationalist teenagers are involved in the crime. The criminal grouping was headed by Yasin Hayal, who was earlier tried for setting a bomb at a McDonald's in Trabzon. According to Milliyet newspaper, 17-year-old Ogün Samast, arrested yesterday over suspicion of Dink’s killing, received the gun from Hayal. At that both were members of the “Center of Islamic Order” ultra-right organization.
You don't really think the kid got the idea all by himself, do you.
The edition reminds that after the arrest in Trabzon Hayal shouted out in the court, “I did it to punish Americans. I’ll get free in three years and will blow up HSBC Bank and the Russian Consulate.”

Meanwhile Istanbul Prosecutor Aykut Cengiz Engin told journalists on Sunday that the investigation did not reveal involvement of any organization in Dink’s killing. “The investigation is carried out in all directions. Presently seven people are being vigorously interrogated,” he said. Samast said he committed the crime because of the journalist’s writing. I am not sorry, he added, reports RIA Novosti.

International Herald Tribune says Yasin Hayal was trained to make bombs at a camp of Chechen militants in Azerbaijan.
We're supposed to have a decent relationship with the Azeris. We ought to be talking with them about these camps.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  The Turkish govt may try to play down any jihadist influence in the accused. However, the judiciary in Turkey has sometimes taken investigations into its own hands resulting in embarrassing truth to come out.

Lots and lots to wait for in this one.
Posted by: mhw   2007-01-23 12:11  

#2  If I had a name like Hrant Dink, I'd be hoping somebody would kill me...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-01-23 12:06  

#1  WE have a decent relationship with the Azeris. I doubt panARMENIAN.net does, though. Wait for confirmation from a more reliable source.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2007-01-23 09:41  

00:00