Özkan Mumcu

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.

A police chief accused of negligence in the murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink in 2007 was arrested after turning himself into the authorities in Ankara on Jan. 19.

Police chief Ercan Demir was arrested on charges of "voluntary manslaughter with reckless behavior."

An Istanbul court has arrested two policemen involved in the inquiry into the killing of Hrant Dink, the Turkish Armenian journalist.

The court accepted on Jan. 13 the prosecutor's demand to arrest Muhittin Zenit and Özkan Mumcu, two police officers on duty at the police department in the Black Sea province of Trabzon when Dink was killed in Istanbul.