Convict in Hrant Dink case demands filing of lawsuit against officers driving him to crime

ISTANBUL, MARCH 2, ARMENPRESS: Yasin Hayal, who is sentenced to life in prison in the murder case of Hrant Dink - the founder and former chief editor of Istanbul's Agos Armenian bilingual weekly, assassinated in Istanbul in January 2007 by Turkish nationalists - demanded that a lawsuit be filed against Trabzon city's gendarmerie.

As Armenpress reports, in an interview with Taraf daily of Turkey, Yasin Hayal said he was frequently invited to gendarmerie, but his visits have not been registered. "I received the orders of killing Dink through Erhan Tuncel, the Gendarmerie intelligence agent. If a lawsuit is filed against the commanders of Trabzon Gendarmerie, I will give testimony," said Hayal, stressing they must be tried in Hrant Dink's murder case.