Lawsuit over Hrant Dink’s assassination to be accomplished January 17

ISTANBUL, JANUARY 16, ARMENPRESS: The lawsuit over Hrant Dink's assassination will be accomplished January 17 with publication of a verdict, Turkish "Radikal" reports citing its sources, according to Armenpress.

A source of the newspaper informs that all the judges engaged in Dink's case will attend the hearing, which suggests that a verdict will be reached.

The newspaper simultaneously writes that Dink's lawyers are against this: they think the lawsuit should be continued for examination of the new testimonies submitted by them.

Hrant Dink was a Turkish citizen of Armenian descent. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Akos, Dink was a prominent member of the Armenian minority in Turkey. Hrant Dink was assassinated in Istanbul in January 2007, by Ogün Samast, a 17-year old Turkish nationalist. This was shortly after the premiere of the genocide documentary Screamers, in which he is interviewed about Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and the case against him under article 301.