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POLICE OFFICERS POSED WITH MURDERER SAMAST AFTER OFFENCE
BIAnet.org
http://www.bianet.org/english/minorities/137070-police-officers-posed-with-murderer-samast-after-offence
March 20 2012
urkey
Police officer Yakup Kurtan who had his picture taken with Ogun
Samast, murderer of Turkish-Armenian journalists Hrant Dink, holding
the Turkish flag after the offence was promoted to Deputy Chief of
the Malatya Police.
Istanbul - BİA News Center20 March 2012, Tuesday
Former Head of the Samsun Public Order Department, Yakup Kurtaran
(left) together with Dink murderer Ogun Samast (middle) one day after
the offence.
Ogun Samast, convicted murderer of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant
Dink, was arrested on 20 January 2007, one day after he had shot
the editor-in-chief of the Armenian Agos newspaper in bold daylight
in front of his office in Istanbul. Samast was then taken to the
Anti-Terror Branch of the Samsun (Black Sea coast) Police Directorate.
The photographs taken there now leaked to the press.
Gendarmerie and police officers posed for a photograph taken together
with Samast holding the Turkish flag. The picture and related video
footage now leaked to the media.
It turned out that Yakup Kurtaran, then Head of the Samsun Public
Order Department and on the left of the photograph, was promoted as
Deputy Chief of the Malatya Police later on. According to the Radikal
newspaper, Kurtaran was first appointed to Amasya and then to the
traffic registration branch in Malatya.
After a short stay at the traffic registration branch, Kurtaran
advanced quickly. He was promoted to 4th class superintendant and
then to 2nd class superintendent before he became Deputy Chief of
the Malatya Police this year.
When the photograph emerged within the police, Yakup Kurtaran and
several police officers were deposed from office on 5 February 2007.
Pursuant to the corresponding investigation, police inspectors
recommended to punish Kurtaran with the discontinuation of his
seniority-based pay for 16 months. Despite that proposal, Kurtaran
was punished by a salary cut of one day only.
Kurtaran brought the decision before the Samsun 1st Administrative
Court and effected the cancellation of the penalty. A prosecution of
the police officer was not required.
Kurtaran was a 4th class superintendant when the picture was taken. He
made his career from 4th to 2nd class superintendant and eventually
Deputy Chief of the Malatya Police within five years.
Moreover it turned out that an investigation had been launched about
the un-identified person(s) who gave these pictures to the press. The
related file no. 2007/9251 was opened under charges of "violating the
confidentiality of an investigation by publishing the photograph and
camera footage in the media".
According to the report of the State Supervisory Council (DDK), this
file is going to become time-barred on 21 May 2015. It was said that
until this date, the document would permanently be on the agenda. In
contrast to the report, procedures with regard to the Flag Trial were
opened against two police officers only who were acquitted later on.
DDK report In the DDK report it was said that taking such a picture
with holding the Turkish flag represented a marginal mindset. Yet,
the report emphasized that the paradigms leading to this kind of
understanding should be faced. It was also suggested to prosecute
the responsible public officials.
"Hold the flag nicely" Samast and police and gendarmerie officers had
the following conversation at the Samsun Police Directorate when the
photograph was taken:
Officer: (addressing Samast) Come here, let's have a picture taken of
both of us together. You don't have to be uncomfortable, I am sincere
(hugging Samast).
Samast: I am not uncomfortable anyways. Let's do it.
Officer: (talking to Samast) Ogun, have it your own. We call it
our own archive. We will put it in the file (pointing with his hand
holding the camera to the people in the back). This guy is from the
crime scene investigation and this guy is his assistant.
Officer: (to Samast) Come on, pose nicely and give this guy a smile.
Officer: Put it to the foreground (referring to the flag). Unfold and
hold it. Hold it nicely. Hold it nice and low so that we can see your
face. Look at us.
Officer: (his face is not visible) My brave man.
Officer: (on the left, wearing a tie, his mobile phone rings) Yes,
brother? How? (At that time, Samast starts rolling up the flag he
is holding.)
Officer: You know what to do with that [flag] in your hand, don't you?
(Thereupon, Samast kisses the flag and puts it back to the pocket of
his denim jacket.)
Officer: (the one on the phone) I don't know anything about that.
Wait, I will call you back... (In the meantime, Samast lights a
cigarette and somebody else comes to his side.)
Officer: (looks at his mobile phone. Then he shows it to Samast and
passes the phone to him. He pads his back. Tea is being served.) Look
here, you look very bad, you lift your eyes.
Officer: The last one is nice, you are smiling. (Gendarmerie and police
officers take a picture side by side in front of Ataturk's speech.)
Samast: (turning to the gendarmerie officer) I want to remove this,
brother. I will remove it. (The gendarmerie officer does not reply
and poses with a flag in his hand.)
Officer: (to Samast) You are looking at the wall, my friend. Look at
the opposite wall, look here. (A police officer turns him into the
other direction.)
Officer: And now Salih, come as well and we'll go together.
"We take pictures for the archive" (A different place, a sofabed)
Officer: This is only for our own archive, did I make myself clear,
only for our archive.
Samast: What should I tell.
Officer: No, no... I mean you buy a ticket in Trabzon, take the bus
and go - this is only for our own archive, that means for the archive
of the Gendarmerie and the Police Directorate.
Officer: I tell you. If this would leak to one single newspaper or
one single media institution I would... My son, do you understand
me? This is why I tell you that this is for our own archive, did I
make myself clear?
Officer: In any case we would be responsible if we gave this to
anybody.
Officer: We would be ridiculed, not you.
Officer: We passed that and we are pleased. We passed that and now
kindly answer the questions asked by this brother... Start asking.
From: Baghdasarian
BIAnet.org
http://www.bianet.org/english/minorities/137070-police-officers-posed-with-murderer-samast-after-offence
March 20 2012
urkey
Police officer Yakup Kurtan who had his picture taken with Ogun
Samast, murderer of Turkish-Armenian journalists Hrant Dink, holding
the Turkish flag after the offence was promoted to Deputy Chief of
the Malatya Police.
Istanbul - BİA News Center20 March 2012, Tuesday
Former Head of the Samsun Public Order Department, Yakup Kurtaran
(left) together with Dink murderer Ogun Samast (middle) one day after
the offence.
Ogun Samast, convicted murderer of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant
Dink, was arrested on 20 January 2007, one day after he had shot
the editor-in-chief of the Armenian Agos newspaper in bold daylight
in front of his office in Istanbul. Samast was then taken to the
Anti-Terror Branch of the Samsun (Black Sea coast) Police Directorate.
The photographs taken there now leaked to the press.
Gendarmerie and police officers posed for a photograph taken together
with Samast holding the Turkish flag. The picture and related video
footage now leaked to the media.
It turned out that Yakup Kurtaran, then Head of the Samsun Public
Order Department and on the left of the photograph, was promoted as
Deputy Chief of the Malatya Police later on. According to the Radikal
newspaper, Kurtaran was first appointed to Amasya and then to the
traffic registration branch in Malatya.
After a short stay at the traffic registration branch, Kurtaran
advanced quickly. He was promoted to 4th class superintendant and
then to 2nd class superintendent before he became Deputy Chief of
the Malatya Police this year.
When the photograph emerged within the police, Yakup Kurtaran and
several police officers were deposed from office on 5 February 2007.
Pursuant to the corresponding investigation, police inspectors
recommended to punish Kurtaran with the discontinuation of his
seniority-based pay for 16 months. Despite that proposal, Kurtaran
was punished by a salary cut of one day only.
Kurtaran brought the decision before the Samsun 1st Administrative
Court and effected the cancellation of the penalty. A prosecution of
the police officer was not required.
Kurtaran was a 4th class superintendant when the picture was taken. He
made his career from 4th to 2nd class superintendant and eventually
Deputy Chief of the Malatya Police within five years.
Moreover it turned out that an investigation had been launched about
the un-identified person(s) who gave these pictures to the press. The
related file no. 2007/9251 was opened under charges of "violating the
confidentiality of an investigation by publishing the photograph and
camera footage in the media".
According to the report of the State Supervisory Council (DDK), this
file is going to become time-barred on 21 May 2015. It was said that
until this date, the document would permanently be on the agenda. In
contrast to the report, procedures with regard to the Flag Trial were
opened against two police officers only who were acquitted later on.
DDK report In the DDK report it was said that taking such a picture
with holding the Turkish flag represented a marginal mindset. Yet,
the report emphasized that the paradigms leading to this kind of
understanding should be faced. It was also suggested to prosecute
the responsible public officials.
"Hold the flag nicely" Samast and police and gendarmerie officers had
the following conversation at the Samsun Police Directorate when the
photograph was taken:
Officer: (addressing Samast) Come here, let's have a picture taken of
both of us together. You don't have to be uncomfortable, I am sincere
(hugging Samast).
Samast: I am not uncomfortable anyways. Let's do it.
Officer: (talking to Samast) Ogun, have it your own. We call it
our own archive. We will put it in the file (pointing with his hand
holding the camera to the people in the back). This guy is from the
crime scene investigation and this guy is his assistant.
Officer: (to Samast) Come on, pose nicely and give this guy a smile.
Officer: Put it to the foreground (referring to the flag). Unfold and
hold it. Hold it nicely. Hold it nice and low so that we can see your
face. Look at us.
Officer: (his face is not visible) My brave man.
Officer: (on the left, wearing a tie, his mobile phone rings) Yes,
brother? How? (At that time, Samast starts rolling up the flag he
is holding.)
Officer: You know what to do with that [flag] in your hand, don't you?
(Thereupon, Samast kisses the flag and puts it back to the pocket of
his denim jacket.)
Officer: (the one on the phone) I don't know anything about that.
Wait, I will call you back... (In the meantime, Samast lights a
cigarette and somebody else comes to his side.)
Officer: (looks at his mobile phone. Then he shows it to Samast and
passes the phone to him. He pads his back. Tea is being served.) Look
here, you look very bad, you lift your eyes.
Officer: The last one is nice, you are smiling. (Gendarmerie and police
officers take a picture side by side in front of Ataturk's speech.)
Samast: (turning to the gendarmerie officer) I want to remove this,
brother. I will remove it. (The gendarmerie officer does not reply
and poses with a flag in his hand.)
Officer: (to Samast) You are looking at the wall, my friend. Look at
the opposite wall, look here. (A police officer turns him into the
other direction.)
Officer: And now Salih, come as well and we'll go together.
"We take pictures for the archive" (A different place, a sofabed)
Officer: This is only for our own archive, did I make myself clear,
only for our archive.
Samast: What should I tell.
Officer: No, no... I mean you buy a ticket in Trabzon, take the bus
and go - this is only for our own archive, that means for the archive
of the Gendarmerie and the Police Directorate.
Officer: I tell you. If this would leak to one single newspaper or
one single media institution I would... My son, do you understand
me? This is why I tell you that this is for our own archive, did I
make myself clear?
Officer: In any case we would be responsible if we gave this to
anybody.
Officer: We would be ridiculed, not you.
Officer: We passed that and we are pleased. We passed that and now
kindly answer the questions asked by this brother... Start asking.
From: Baghdasarian