Osman Gülbel

Osman Gülbel, a former deputy head of the Police Intelligence Department charged in the case on the killing of Armenian-origin Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, has told an Istanbul court that he "did what he was supposed to do" by sending a document containing information that Dink was to be targeted to the necessary offices. 

Lawyers of the victim have reacted against the authorities' decision to return the indictment involving suspected public servants in the January 2007 murder of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalistHrant Dink to the prosecutor in charge of the investigation. The return means that cases will likely not be opened against the suspects.

Five former police officers recently detained on the charge of "negligence on public duty" have been released, and four others under arrest have been cleared of charges of "committing deliberate murder," "forming an illegal organization," and "membership of an illegal organization to commit crime" in the murder case of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

Seven former police officers have been detained on charges of "negligence on public duty," as fresh evidence surfaced in the case into the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. 

Three police officers have been arrested in Ankara on allegations that they had engaged in illegal wiretapping for what the government describes as the ?parallel state,? the movement of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen.