Ali Fuat Yilmazer, the former Head of Turkish police intelligence department, has been arrested over the assassination of famous Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.
Dink, the late editor-in-chief of Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos, was shot and killed in broad daylight on January 19, 2007, by an ultranationalist teenager outside the offices of his newspaper in Istanbul. In 2011 Ogun Samast, the murderer, was sentenced to 23 years of imprisonment.
Anadolu informs that the decision on arresting Yilmazer was ruled by Istanbul's 5th Penal Court on charges of "forming an organization to commit a crime" and "aiding and abetting".
Yilmazer, who was one of the police intelligence department heads at the time of the murder in 2007, was already under arrest in Silivri Prison over his alleged involvement in "parallel state" - term used by the Turkish officials to designate a purported group of Turkish bureaucrats and senior officials allegedly embedded in the country's institutions, including the judiciary and police, to undermine the government.