Death Threat for Journalist Pekgöz
News chief of Günlük newspaper Ramazan Pekgöz was threatened by a person on the street who said, "We finished Hrant Dink off. We will do the same to you". After Pekgöz complained at the police station in Taksim/Istanbul, the person who threatened him was arrested.
Journalist Ramazan Pekgöz, news chief of the Turkish Günlük newspaper, received a death threat while he was walking to his office in the morning of 28 February.
A person with the initials A.S. had followed Pekgöz on the side walk before he stopped him and said, "We finished Hrant Dink off. We will do the same to you". Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was assassinated in front of his workplace Agos newspaper in January 2007. Pekgöz complained about the person who threatened him at the Taksim Police Station in central Istanbul. The suspect was arrested subsequently.
'We will kill you like Hrant Dink'
Journalist Pekgöz said that this person had followed him starting from Galatasaray High School close to the southern end of the popular Istiklal Avenue in Taksim (Istanbul). Apparently, the suspect was cursing on the way. Pekgöz said that he asked the suspect why he was following him once he got close to him and he replied, "This is a street, I am just walking".
The person known as A.S. followed the journalist for another while and then approached him directly by threatening Pekgöz: "We finished Hrant Dink off. We will do the same to you". Pekgöz instantly went to the close-by Taksim Police Station and complained about the person.
Police officers of the Anti-Terror Branch, the Security Branch and the Intelligence Branch started an investigation into the matter upon Pekgöz's complaint. It turned out that suspect A.S. has got a criminal record for theft. He was apparently born in Çanakkale (south of the Dardanelles) in 1977. (EÖ/VK)
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