YEREVAN, JANUARY 20, ARMENPRESS. Turkish leading “Justice and development” party rejected the claim on Armenian journalist Hrant Dink's murder investigation. As “Armenpress” reports, Demokrathaber.net informs about the aforementioned.

President of the parliamentary faction of the Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Idris Baluken and Armenian deputy elected from Istanbul Garo Paylan presented such claim in Turkish Parliament.

On the 9th Anniversary of Dink’s death the members of the leading party in Mejlis, who form a majority in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, voted “against” to the claim which was rejected after that.

The Armenian editor of the Istanbul-based “Agos” newspaper Hrant Dink was killed on January 19, 2007 as a result of armed attack in front of the editorial.

Dink`s assassination organizer Yasin Hayal was sentenced to life imprisonment and the perpetrator Ogyun Samast was sentenced to imprisonment for 22 years by the decision of the court on January 17, 2012.

On October 2014 Istanbul's 5th High Criminal Court made a decision to start the trial into the murder of Hrant Dink from zero.

An earlier investigation showed that the prosecutors who worked on the case ignored serious allegations into the involvement of top police officers in the murder.