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Today's Zaman, Turkey
Aug 26 2011
Court wants phone recordings of people around Dink murder site
26 August 2011, Friday / TODAY'S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
An Turkish court on Thursday rejected an appeal by the
Telecommunications Directorate (TİB) against an earlier court decision
ordering the institution to end telephone recordings of people who
were suspiciously close to the murder site in the killing of
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, ordering TİB to send the
recordings to the court.
The 14th High Criminal Court, which is hearing the case into the 2007
killing of Dink, earlier requested the recordings from TİB upon a
request by the co-plaintiffs involved in the case. TİB opposed the
decision and submitted a report to the court, saying that it would not
release the telephone recordings because that would `interfere in
their private lives.' It also applied to an upper court, the 9th High
Criminal Court, and requested the court to revoke the decision of the
14th High Criminal Court.
The 9th High Criminal Court, however, unanimously rejected the appeal
and ordered TİB to send the recordings. TİB deletes recordings of
telephone conversations of people every five year. Nearly five months
are left until recordings made at the time of Dink's murder are
deleted.
Dink, the late editor-in-chief of Agos, was shot dead by an
ultranationalist teenager outside the offices of his newspaper in
broad daylight in İstanbul on Jan. 19, 2007. The investigation into
his murder stalled when the suspected perpetrator and his accomplices
were put on trial, but those who masterminded the plot to kill him
have yet to be exposed and punished.
The investigation that followed Dink's death revealed that the police
had been tipped off to plans to murder the journalist. Nineteen
suspects are currently facing trial in the murder case. A majority of
the suspects, including the hitman, are from Trabzon, where the police
say they had informed the İstanbul police about the plot to kill Dink
on more than one occasion.
In addition to having ignored the tip-off about the plot, lawyers
representing the plaintiff are accusing the police of destroying
crucial evidence to protect some of the suspects, among whom is an
ex-police informant.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Aug 26 2011
Court wants phone recordings of people around Dink murder site
26 August 2011, Friday / TODAY'S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
An Turkish court on Thursday rejected an appeal by the
Telecommunications Directorate (TİB) against an earlier court decision
ordering the institution to end telephone recordings of people who
were suspiciously close to the murder site in the killing of
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, ordering TİB to send the
recordings to the court.
The 14th High Criminal Court, which is hearing the case into the 2007
killing of Dink, earlier requested the recordings from TİB upon a
request by the co-plaintiffs involved in the case. TİB opposed the
decision and submitted a report to the court, saying that it would not
release the telephone recordings because that would `interfere in
their private lives.' It also applied to an upper court, the 9th High
Criminal Court, and requested the court to revoke the decision of the
14th High Criminal Court.
The 9th High Criminal Court, however, unanimously rejected the appeal
and ordered TİB to send the recordings. TİB deletes recordings of
telephone conversations of people every five year. Nearly five months
are left until recordings made at the time of Dink's murder are
deleted.
Dink, the late editor-in-chief of Agos, was shot dead by an
ultranationalist teenager outside the offices of his newspaper in
broad daylight in İstanbul on Jan. 19, 2007. The investigation into
his murder stalled when the suspected perpetrator and his accomplices
were put on trial, but those who masterminded the plot to kill him
have yet to be exposed and punished.
The investigation that followed Dink's death revealed that the police
had been tipped off to plans to murder the journalist. Nineteen
suspects are currently facing trial in the murder case. A majority of
the suspects, including the hitman, are from Trabzon, where the police
say they had informed the İstanbul police about the plot to kill Dink
on more than one occasion.
In addition to having ignored the tip-off about the plot, lawyers
representing the plaintiff are accusing the police of destroying
crucial evidence to protect some of the suspects, among whom is an
ex-police informant.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress