Yasin Hayal: After Killing Dink Our Next Target was Orhan Pamuk

13:47, July 4, 2012

Yasin Hayal, convicted of complicity in the 2007 murder  of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, said the masterminds behind the killing were planning to kill Nobel prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk after Dink, this according to a reporter in the newspaper Taraf.

After being arrested and taken to court in 2007, Hayal had threatened, "Orhan Pamuk should be careful."

Hayal elaborated on these statements five years later from his prison cell in Tekirdağ. He said Erhan Tuncel, who worked as an informant for the Trabzon Police Department and was arrested after the murder of Dink but subsequently released, told him: "Hrant Dink and Orhan Pamuk are dangerous to this nation. They should be killed. But Dink has priority."  Read more... (256 words)

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