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ZIRVE CASE KEY TO ARMENIAN-TURKISH JOURNALIST DINK, FATHER SANTORO CASES: LAWYER
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Sept 20 2013
ISTANBUL - Hurriyet Daily News
by Vercihan Ziflioglu
Once the Zirve Publishing House trial is enlightened, many other
murders from the past 60 years including journalist Hrant Dink's and
Father Andrea Santoro's will also be solved, according to Zirve's
lawyer
The solving of the murders in Turkey's recent past will shed light
on key points of the deep state, according to Erdal Dogan, the lawyer
for the Malatya Zirve Publishing House and Hrant Dink cases.
Dogan, who until recently was also an attorney for the Dink case,
told the Hurriyet Daily News that the Zirve Publishing House trial was
a key case that would unravel the last 60 years of Turkey's deep state.
"Once the Zirve Publishing House trial is solved, a picture of
Turkey's past 60 years will appear. It will be clear how governments
have been brought down, how ethnic structures have been played with,
and how psychological propaganda has been made," he said.
Three missionaries, a German, Tillman Geske, and two Turks, Necati
Aydın and Ugur Yuksel, were tied up and tortured before their throats
were slit at the Zirve Publishing House, a Christian publisher in
Malatya, on April 18, 2007. Prior to that incident, Father Andrea
Santoro was shot dead on Feb. 5, 2006 as he prayed in his church
in the Black Sea city of Trabzon. In addition, Armenian journalist
Hrant Dink was shot on Jan. 19, 2007 in front of the building of the
Armenian-Turkish Daily Agos, where he was the editor-in-chief.
Dogan said that the latest indictment in the Zirve trial openly
showed the cell structure of the Ergenekon coup plot group, adding
that Christians - especially Armenians - were targeted. "The structure
that committed the Zirve murders is the same structure that committed
the Dink and Santoro murders. The government is targeted, and chaos
is aimed for," he said.
Dogan claimed that all of these cases had ties with the Special
Warfare Department, which also helped organize the anti-Greek riots
in Istanbul of Sept. 6-7, 1955.
"The structure of 1955 was developed in the 1990s, and a structure
under the Special Forces Command was formed. We talk about a structure
named Turkey's National Strategies and Warfare Department (TUSHAD),
which came up clearly with documents in the Zirve murders trial,"
said Dogan.
'Black and white' forces
He also claimed that the Turkish General Staff had approved of
the existence of this structure of "black and white" forces. "The
whites are established as civilians and they point out targets by
disinformation," he stated.
Retired General HurÅ~_it Tolon and former Malatya Gendarmerie Regiment
Commander Mehmet Ulger, who both were convicted in the recent
Ergenekon coup case verdict, have also been added as suspects in
the Zirve murders' case. In addition, the court that is considering
the case has also demanded the court files of the Ergenekon, Balyoz,
JITEM and Musa Anter cases.
Upon being asked whether the government could be held responsible
for these murders, Dogan said that as the government had signed the
National Security Council decision of 2003, which perceived missionary
works as a threat, it could be held responsible.
He said sufficient speed could not be given to the Dink case thus far
as there had been considerable levels of disinformation. Dogan claimed
that the 14th High Criminal Court looking at the case had reached its
verdict by ruling at the very beginning of the trial that there was
no organization behind the murder. He also stated that the 9th penal
chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals had "signed Dink's death
decree" by notoriously putting him on trial for breaching Article
301 of the Turkish Penal Code. "Therefore, neither of the courts are
objective or independent," said Dogan.
September/20/2013
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/zirve-case-key-to-armenian-turkish-journalist-dink-father-santoro-cases-lawyer.aspx?pageID=238&nID=54788&NewsCatID=339
From: Baghdasarian
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Sept 20 2013
ISTANBUL - Hurriyet Daily News
by Vercihan Ziflioglu
Once the Zirve Publishing House trial is enlightened, many other
murders from the past 60 years including journalist Hrant Dink's and
Father Andrea Santoro's will also be solved, according to Zirve's
lawyer
The solving of the murders in Turkey's recent past will shed light
on key points of the deep state, according to Erdal Dogan, the lawyer
for the Malatya Zirve Publishing House and Hrant Dink cases.
Dogan, who until recently was also an attorney for the Dink case,
told the Hurriyet Daily News that the Zirve Publishing House trial was
a key case that would unravel the last 60 years of Turkey's deep state.
"Once the Zirve Publishing House trial is solved, a picture of
Turkey's past 60 years will appear. It will be clear how governments
have been brought down, how ethnic structures have been played with,
and how psychological propaganda has been made," he said.
Three missionaries, a German, Tillman Geske, and two Turks, Necati
Aydın and Ugur Yuksel, were tied up and tortured before their throats
were slit at the Zirve Publishing House, a Christian publisher in
Malatya, on April 18, 2007. Prior to that incident, Father Andrea
Santoro was shot dead on Feb. 5, 2006 as he prayed in his church
in the Black Sea city of Trabzon. In addition, Armenian journalist
Hrant Dink was shot on Jan. 19, 2007 in front of the building of the
Armenian-Turkish Daily Agos, where he was the editor-in-chief.
Dogan said that the latest indictment in the Zirve trial openly
showed the cell structure of the Ergenekon coup plot group, adding
that Christians - especially Armenians - were targeted. "The structure
that committed the Zirve murders is the same structure that committed
the Dink and Santoro murders. The government is targeted, and chaos
is aimed for," he said.
Dogan claimed that all of these cases had ties with the Special
Warfare Department, which also helped organize the anti-Greek riots
in Istanbul of Sept. 6-7, 1955.
"The structure of 1955 was developed in the 1990s, and a structure
under the Special Forces Command was formed. We talk about a structure
named Turkey's National Strategies and Warfare Department (TUSHAD),
which came up clearly with documents in the Zirve murders trial,"
said Dogan.
'Black and white' forces
He also claimed that the Turkish General Staff had approved of
the existence of this structure of "black and white" forces. "The
whites are established as civilians and they point out targets by
disinformation," he stated.
Retired General HurÅ~_it Tolon and former Malatya Gendarmerie Regiment
Commander Mehmet Ulger, who both were convicted in the recent
Ergenekon coup case verdict, have also been added as suspects in
the Zirve murders' case. In addition, the court that is considering
the case has also demanded the court files of the Ergenekon, Balyoz,
JITEM and Musa Anter cases.
Upon being asked whether the government could be held responsible
for these murders, Dogan said that as the government had signed the
National Security Council decision of 2003, which perceived missionary
works as a threat, it could be held responsible.
He said sufficient speed could not be given to the Dink case thus far
as there had been considerable levels of disinformation. Dogan claimed
that the 14th High Criminal Court looking at the case had reached its
verdict by ruling at the very beginning of the trial that there was
no organization behind the murder. He also stated that the 9th penal
chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals had "signed Dink's death
decree" by notoriously putting him on trial for breaching Article
301 of the Turkish Penal Code. "Therefore, neither of the courts are
objective or independent," said Dogan.
September/20/2013
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/zirve-case-key-to-armenian-turkish-journalist-dink-father-santoro-cases-lawyer.aspx?pageID=238&nID=54788&NewsCatID=339
From: Baghdasarian