YEREVAN, OCTOBER 8, ARMENPRESS. 5 former security workers were released over the murder case of Hrant Dink, former editor of the Armenian “Agos” newspaper in Istanbul.

As “Armenpress” reports, Turkish Hurriet newspaper informs about this.

The nine suspects are reported to have been on duty in the police departments in Istanbul, Ankara and the Black Seaprovince of Trabzon when Dink was murdered on Jan. 19, 2007.

Meanwhile, the four former police officers under arrest in the investigation - Ramazan Akyürek, Ercan Demir, Özkan Mumcu and Muhittin Zenit - have all been asked to testify again as new evidence was disclosed in the case, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.

Zenit, Mumcu and Demir had previously been arrested on charges of negligence on duty that caused Dink’s murder, while Ali Fuat Yılamzer, the former police intelligence chief in the Istanbul Police Department, was arrested on charges of “helping commit organized murder” and “forming an illegal organization to commit crime.”