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DINK LAWYERS DEMAND PROBE OF TURKISH SECRET SERVICE
hetq
15:37, March 16, 2012
Lawyers for the family of Hrant Dink have demanded that prosecutors
investigate archives of the Istanbul and Trabzon branches of the
National Intelligence Organization (MİT).
They argue that such a probe is necessary in order to understand how
those agencies failed to prevent the murder of Hrant Dink in 2007.
MİT's responsibility has not been stressed so far even though it's
an institution that would naturally know about close threats to
Hrant Dink's life. But MİT was left out of the investigations,"
the lawyers said in a press conference on Thursday.
The lawyers told prosecutors who are again investigating the events
preceding the murder of Dink that it is evident that MİT Trabzon
officials are lying when they say that they had not received any
information related to plans to murder Dink.
Lawyers claim that average people in Trabzon's Pelitli - a small town
where Dink's convicted murderer, Ogun Samast, is from - knew about it.
"The information regarding plans to kill Dink was known by police and
gendarmerie intelligence units; however, it is unconvincing that the
biggest intelligence agency in the country, MİT, was unaware of the
danger and the threat," the lawyers said, adding that it should be made
clear how the police and gendarmerie failed to convey information about
plans to kill Dink to the MİT, despite laws requiring them to do so.
hetq
15:37, March 16, 2012
Lawyers for the family of Hrant Dink have demanded that prosecutors
investigate archives of the Istanbul and Trabzon branches of the
National Intelligence Organization (MİT).
They argue that such a probe is necessary in order to understand how
those agencies failed to prevent the murder of Hrant Dink in 2007.
MİT's responsibility has not been stressed so far even though it's
an institution that would naturally know about close threats to
Hrant Dink's life. But MİT was left out of the investigations,"
the lawyers said in a press conference on Thursday.
The lawyers told prosecutors who are again investigating the events
preceding the murder of Dink that it is evident that MİT Trabzon
officials are lying when they say that they had not received any
information related to plans to murder Dink.
Lawyers claim that average people in Trabzon's Pelitli - a small town
where Dink's convicted murderer, Ogun Samast, is from - knew about it.
"The information regarding plans to kill Dink was known by police and
gendarmerie intelligence units; however, it is unconvincing that the
biggest intelligence agency in the country, MİT, was unaware of the
danger and the threat," the lawyers said, adding that it should be made
clear how the police and gendarmerie failed to convey information about
plans to kill Dink to the MİT, despite laws requiring them to do so.