According to the Turkish press, the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court of Appeals, has requested that the high court overturn a 2012 verdict ruling out the involvement of an organized criminal network in the 2007 murder of Hrant Dink.

The Turkish press recently reported that the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office stated that Dink had evidently been killed solely because he was a Christian and that those behind the murder sought to destabilize the country.

“It is obvious that the murder aimed to weaken the state's authority, to create an environment of chaos and instability by damaging public order and putting Turkey in a difficult position in the international arena,” it said.

In 2012, Istanbul’s 14th High Criminal Court cleared all suspects in the case of being members in a terrorist organization. The move angered lawyers and others who claimed the trial failed to shed light on alleged connections between the suspects and state officials.

Bahri Belen, a Dink family lawyer, told Today’s Zaman that, ““If the chamber finds the prosecutor's argument valid, then it will overrule the decision of the İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court which cleared the suspects of organizational membership. In that case, the İstanbul court will either insist that its original verdict was valid or agree with the high court on the basis that it has more evidence or it will collect more evidence,”