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The court rejected the demand by Dink’s lawyers to see the report about Erhan Tuncel, who is on trial as one of the instigators of the murder. The next hearing will be on January 26, 2009.

Dink’s lawyers have objected to not being able to see the report about Erhan Tuncel’s function as an intelligence staff on the grounds that it was a “State Secret”. Witness Osman Hayal did not answer the question whether or not he was in Istanbul at the time of the murder.

Istanbul’s 14th High Criminal Court will continue hearing the witnesses in Dink’s murder case. “Hrant’s Friends” will be at Beşiktaş Square in Istanbul as before, demanding justice.

The file of the two gendarmerie officers who have been on trial for neglect in the murder of Hrant Dink have been sent to the High Criminal Court. Lawyer Cinmen says Colonel Öz and others should be brought to the High Criminal Court.

Lawyers of the Dink family file a complaint with the Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors against the three judges who stopped the investigation of the eight police officers, despite reports.

Supreme Court of Appeals 8th Penal Chamber finds Yasin Hayal’s sentence in the trial of Trabzon McDonalds bombing case not sufficient. Hayal will be retried.

It has been suspected all along that Ogün Smast, Hrant Dink’s killer, was not alone at the scene on the day of the murder. Now the police is considering the possibility that Osman Hayal, Yasin Hayal’s brother, may have accompanied Ogün Samast on that day.

Osman Hayal, brother of the alleged instigator in Dink’s murder, has been taken into custody, even though he had claimed before that he was not in İstanbul on the day of the murder, but in Trabzon.

Police officer Muhittin Zenit, who was on the agenda after Dink’s murder for the telephone conversation he had with one of the conspirators of the murder, Erhan Tuncel, is suing bianet.org and the NTV news channel for damages.

Istanbul Police Department announce that they are going to file a lawsuit against the newspaper Radikal for carrying a story about Ogün Samast’s pictures taken by them. The reporter says he would be honored to be sued for this.

According to a telephone communication revealed by the Ergenekon investigation, there were two more individuals with Ogün Samast when he killed Hrant Dink and Yasin Hayal, the instigator of the murder, was a member of the Great Union Party at the time.

Parliamentary Human Rights Subcommittee accuses the security units of the state for not taking the necessary steps to prevent Hrant Dink’s murder in its report. It points out to the lack of communication between the institutions.