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Oct 8 2011
TİB drags feet in sending phone recordings from around Dink murder site
07 October 2011, Friday / TODAY'S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
The Telecommunications Directorate (TİB), facing a court order to send
the recordings of phone conversations made around the scene of the
murder of a Turkish-Armenian journalist in 2007, has asked the court
for `representational conversations' to help the telecommunications
body identify which base stations were used for the conversations that
took place on the day of the murder, a newspaper report said on
Friday.
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was shot to death by a teenage
hitman outside his office in İstanbul in broad daylight. 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. Lawyers for the
Dink family say the real masterminds behind the murder have not been
exposed and want the investigation to deepen to uncover the murder
suspect's links with state bureaucrats.
The İstanbul 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 that the court revoke the 14th High
Criminal Court's decision.
The 9th High Criminal Court, however, unanimously rejected the appeal
in August and ordered TİB to send the recordings. Instead of
complying, TİB this time requested that the court provide detailed
information (such as the caller's number, the number called and the
length and date of the call) on sample conversations at least one
minute long for each GSM operator so that it could determine which
base stations of which GSM operators were used in telephone
conversations made around the crime scene on the day of the murder,
the report, published in the Vatan daily, said.
Observers say TİB's puzzling request may not produce practical
results, given that some of the base stations in the area may well
have been moved to different locations since the murder.
The co-plaintiffs say a suspicious person was seen making telephone
calls around the murder scene twice on the day it took place. They
asked the court for a list of telephone calls made around the time in
the area to determine who the suspicious person was and whether the
calls that person made could shed further light on the murder.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Oct 8 2011
TİB drags feet in sending phone recordings from around Dink murder site
07 October 2011, Friday / TODAY'S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
The Telecommunications Directorate (TİB), facing a court order to send
the recordings of phone conversations made around the scene of the
murder of a Turkish-Armenian journalist in 2007, has asked the court
for `representational conversations' to help the telecommunications
body identify which base stations were used for the conversations that
took place on the day of the murder, a newspaper report said on
Friday.
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was shot to death by a teenage
hitman outside his office in İstanbul in broad daylight. 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. Lawyers for the
Dink family say the real masterminds behind the murder have not been
exposed and want the investigation to deepen to uncover the murder
suspect's links with state bureaucrats.
The İstanbul 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 that the court revoke the 14th High
Criminal Court's decision.
The 9th High Criminal Court, however, unanimously rejected the appeal
in August and ordered TİB to send the recordings. Instead of
complying, TİB this time requested that the court provide detailed
information (such as the caller's number, the number called and the
length and date of the call) on sample conversations at least one
minute long for each GSM operator so that it could determine which
base stations of which GSM operators were used in telephone
conversations made around the crime scene on the day of the murder,
the report, published in the Vatan daily, said.
Observers say TİB's puzzling request may not produce practical
results, given that some of the base stations in the area may well
have been moved to different locations since the murder.
The co-plaintiffs say a suspicious person was seen making telephone
calls around the murder scene twice on the day it took place. They
asked the court for a list of telephone calls made around the time in
the area to determine who the suspicious person was and whether the
calls that person made could shed further light on the murder.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress