Since the accused O.S. in Dink’s murder trial will be eighteen in the next hearing, the trial will be open to the media.
O.S., the accused in the murder trial of Hrant Dink, the founder and chief editor of Agos, the Armenian- Turkish weekly, who was slained on January 19, 2007, will be eighteen years old on June 28, Saturday, and therefore the hearing on July 7 will be open to the media and the public.
The Judiciary Medical Institution (the coroner’s jury) had inspected the bone information of the accused and had determined that he was not seventeen, but nineteen on the day of the murder. However, the court had refused to take this information into consideration.
The accused was born on June 28, 1990, according to the records of Zeynep Kamil hospital and therefore he will be eighteen on June 28.
The next hearing of Dink’s murder trial will be at the İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court on July 7.
Since the confidentiality decision of the previous hearings will be removed, the media will be able to publish the statements of the accused. (NZ/EZÖ/TB)

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