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NEW BOOK IN TURKEY CLAIMS HRANT DINK'S MURDERER FEARED FOR HIS LIFE
Hurriyet
Jan 13 2011
Turkey
Nedim 癬^ener previously faced trial for 'making targets of civil
servants,' 'obtaining secret documents' and 'exposing secret documents'
in his book, 'Hrant Dink Cinayeti ve 襤stihbarat Yalanlar覺' (The
Hrant Dink Murder and Intelligence Lies).
A new book on the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink,
killed four years ago in Istanbul, has claimed the triggerman was
glad to be apprehended because he knew he would also be executed.
The author, Nedim 癬^ener, is a journalist who has been following
the case closely since the murder of Dink, the editor-in-chief of
weekly Agos, in January 2007. His book, "K覺rm覺z覺 Cuma - Dink'in
Kalemini Kim K覺rd覺?" (Red Friday - Who Broke Dink's Pen?), will be
on shelves in Turkey by the weekend.
According to the book, self-confessed triggerman Ogun Samast, who is
from the Black Sea city of Trabzon, spoke to Prime Ministry inspectors
April 15, 2008, at the Kocaeli F-Type Prison where he was being held
and said he thought about surrendering in Istanbul after he shot Dink.
"However, I thought, 'What would they do to me here?'" he said. "I
thought, 'I will surrender in Trabzon; at least I will see my mother
[and] father once more.' Then they caught me in Samsun. It is good
that they did. Otherwise, they would have killed me in Giresun."
癬^ener wrote that Samast did not want these comments to be included
in the inspectors' report and said he would not sign it if they were,
but the inspectors convinced him to allow the "Then they caught me
in Samsun. It is good that they did" part to be included.
The journalist said he received intelligence that the Samast's fear was
not misplaced. When he looked further into this, he said, he discovered
a memo and a tape from Re癬_at Altay, then the chief of police for
Trabzon. 癬^ener claims Altay sent the memo and tape to then-Interior
Minister Abdulkadir Aksu and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The
contents of the tape reportedly record a meeting by the nationalist
gang that Samast belonged to. The gang met five hours before Samast
was caught in Samsun and went there to meet him two hours later.
On the tape, G.K., a gang member whose name was not revealed, is heard
speaking to O.D., a Trabzon police officer whose name was also not
given. During these talks, Yasin Hayal's name is also mentioned. Hayal
is one of the suspects in the Dink murder whose alleged involvement
was unknown to anyone but the Istanbul and Trabzon police on the day
the tape was said to have been made.
Triggerman Samast's trial was separated from the main murder case
and transferred to a juvenile court in October due to a legal change
he benefited from because he was under the age of 18 on the day of
the murder.
Author 癬^ener previously faced trial for "making targets of civil
servants," "obtaining secret documents" and "exposing secret documents"
in his book, "Hrant Dink Cinayeti ve 襤stihbarat Yalanlar覺" (The
Hrant Dink Murder and Intelligence Lies). He was acquitted of all
the charges in June.
From: A. Papazian
Hurriyet
Jan 13 2011
Turkey
Nedim 癬^ener previously faced trial for 'making targets of civil
servants,' 'obtaining secret documents' and 'exposing secret documents'
in his book, 'Hrant Dink Cinayeti ve 襤stihbarat Yalanlar覺' (The
Hrant Dink Murder and Intelligence Lies).
A new book on the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink,
killed four years ago in Istanbul, has claimed the triggerman was
glad to be apprehended because he knew he would also be executed.
The author, Nedim 癬^ener, is a journalist who has been following
the case closely since the murder of Dink, the editor-in-chief of
weekly Agos, in January 2007. His book, "K覺rm覺z覺 Cuma - Dink'in
Kalemini Kim K覺rd覺?" (Red Friday - Who Broke Dink's Pen?), will be
on shelves in Turkey by the weekend.
According to the book, self-confessed triggerman Ogun Samast, who is
from the Black Sea city of Trabzon, spoke to Prime Ministry inspectors
April 15, 2008, at the Kocaeli F-Type Prison where he was being held
and said he thought about surrendering in Istanbul after he shot Dink.
"However, I thought, 'What would they do to me here?'" he said. "I
thought, 'I will surrender in Trabzon; at least I will see my mother
[and] father once more.' Then they caught me in Samsun. It is good
that they did. Otherwise, they would have killed me in Giresun."
癬^ener wrote that Samast did not want these comments to be included
in the inspectors' report and said he would not sign it if they were,
but the inspectors convinced him to allow the "Then they caught me
in Samsun. It is good that they did" part to be included.
The journalist said he received intelligence that the Samast's fear was
not misplaced. When he looked further into this, he said, he discovered
a memo and a tape from Re癬_at Altay, then the chief of police for
Trabzon. 癬^ener claims Altay sent the memo and tape to then-Interior
Minister Abdulkadir Aksu and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The
contents of the tape reportedly record a meeting by the nationalist
gang that Samast belonged to. The gang met five hours before Samast
was caught in Samsun and went there to meet him two hours later.
On the tape, G.K., a gang member whose name was not revealed, is heard
speaking to O.D., a Trabzon police officer whose name was also not
given. During these talks, Yasin Hayal's name is also mentioned. Hayal
is one of the suspects in the Dink murder whose alleged involvement
was unknown to anyone but the Istanbul and Trabzon police on the day
the tape was said to have been made.
Triggerman Samast's trial was separated from the main murder case
and transferred to a juvenile court in October due to a legal change
he benefited from because he was under the age of 18 on the day of
the murder.
Author 癬^ener previously faced trial for "making targets of civil
servants," "obtaining secret documents" and "exposing secret documents"
in his book, "Hrant Dink Cinayeti ve 襤stihbarat Yalanlar覺" (The
Hrant Dink Murder and Intelligence Lies). He was acquitted of all
the charges in June.
From: A. Papazian