[2] On January 16, 2012, Hayal was found guilty of soliciting Dink's murder by a Turkish court and sentenced to life imprisonment.
The ruling was later abolished,[3] and in a new trial Hayal was sentenced to 7 and a half years imprisonment in July 2019,[4] this time for being in charge of an armed group.
[5] Yasin Hayal is a former member of the Turkish ultra-nationalist Great Union Party (BBP); of which he was expelled before the assassination of Dink.
[citation needed] An other instigator of the murder, Erhan Tuncel, allegedly informed police officer Muhittin Zenit of the attack in advance.
[11] In October, Osman was indicted by prosecutors Selim Berna Altay and Fikret Seçen for abetment, on the grounds that he was allegedly in Istanbul when the crime took place.