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Editorial: They all have dirt on their hands
12.10.2014 23:23NEWS
The Hrant Dink murder is seen by the ruling party as a weapon that can
be used against the Gülen movement. This is an ugly plan in which one
of the country's greatest tests of justice is being instrumentalized.
We had already seen how the ruling party wanted to lay the entire
blame of the Hrant Dink murder on the Gülen movement when deceptive
and manipulative reports were published in certain newspapers close to
the government. In July, in response to these reports, we wrote,
`Those who use the Dink case as a vehicle in their strategy of war are
serving to keep certain perpetrators of this crime in the shadows, and
in essence, extending their complicity in the crime'.
The most recent statement given by Ogün Samast, the gunman of the
murder, and the manner in which the aforementioned newspapers have
embraced this statement, clearly show that the same strategy is being
perpetuated in a deeper and more comprehensive manner. In this most
recent statement that has immediately made headlines, Samast gives the
names of police chiefs known to the public as members of the Gülen
movement. This game, based on revealing only one aspect of the truth,
proves nothing but the fact that those who have set up this game have
dirt on their hands.
Today, we are passing through a new period of conflict and
polarization following the end of the 10-year partnership between the
AK Party government and the Gülen Movement. This is a war in which
both sides have shown they will resort to any means possible to weaken
each other. It appears that, in this atmosphere of spite and ill-will,
the Hrant Dink murder is seen by the ruling party as a weapon that can
be used against the Gülen movement. This is an ugly plan in which one
of the country's greatest tests of justice is being instrumentalized.
Yes, it is true that the police chiefs allegedly in relation with the
Gülen Movement, and mentioned in the gunman's statement, carry certain
culpability in the assassination of Hrant Dink. But was it only them?
State institutions, and the National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T)
and the General Staff first and foremost among them, and the Police,
Army, Judiciary, Bureaucracy and the political power to which all
these institutions are tied to, have all played a role first in Dink
being singled out as a target, then in his assassination, and finally
in the cover-up that has protected the perpetrators to this day. This
glaring truth was also declared by the European Court of Human Rights
which found that Turkey had failed to properly investigate the role of
state officials in the Hrant Dink murder, and by the Constitutional
Court that ruled the murder was not probed efficiently, which in its
decision made reference to the ECHR verdict.
This is why the only thing that needs to be done today, as it was
yesterday, is to shed light on all aspects of the Hrant Dink murder,
and bring all those responsible to justice. As long as this is not
done, we will not be fooled by merely a single aspect of the truth
being packaged as part of a certain script and presented to us as
conclusive.
This ugly game will not only fail to provide justice, but it also
means that the culpability of the ruling power in this murder, carried
out on the basis of a consensus, will grow even more. And we know very
well that only when this culpability receives an appropriate sentence
that Turkey will truly become `New Turkey'.
http://agos.com.tr/en/article/9918/editorial-they-all-have-dirt-on-their-hands
12.10.2014 23:23NEWS
The Hrant Dink murder is seen by the ruling party as a weapon that can
be used against the Gülen movement. This is an ugly plan in which one
of the country's greatest tests of justice is being instrumentalized.
We had already seen how the ruling party wanted to lay the entire
blame of the Hrant Dink murder on the Gülen movement when deceptive
and manipulative reports were published in certain newspapers close to
the government. In July, in response to these reports, we wrote,
`Those who use the Dink case as a vehicle in their strategy of war are
serving to keep certain perpetrators of this crime in the shadows, and
in essence, extending their complicity in the crime'.
The most recent statement given by Ogün Samast, the gunman of the
murder, and the manner in which the aforementioned newspapers have
embraced this statement, clearly show that the same strategy is being
perpetuated in a deeper and more comprehensive manner. In this most
recent statement that has immediately made headlines, Samast gives the
names of police chiefs known to the public as members of the Gülen
movement. This game, based on revealing only one aspect of the truth,
proves nothing but the fact that those who have set up this game have
dirt on their hands.
Today, we are passing through a new period of conflict and
polarization following the end of the 10-year partnership between the
AK Party government and the Gülen Movement. This is a war in which
both sides have shown they will resort to any means possible to weaken
each other. It appears that, in this atmosphere of spite and ill-will,
the Hrant Dink murder is seen by the ruling party as a weapon that can
be used against the Gülen movement. This is an ugly plan in which one
of the country's greatest tests of justice is being instrumentalized.
Yes, it is true that the police chiefs allegedly in relation with the
Gülen Movement, and mentioned in the gunman's statement, carry certain
culpability in the assassination of Hrant Dink. But was it only them?
State institutions, and the National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T)
and the General Staff first and foremost among them, and the Police,
Army, Judiciary, Bureaucracy and the political power to which all
these institutions are tied to, have all played a role first in Dink
being singled out as a target, then in his assassination, and finally
in the cover-up that has protected the perpetrators to this day. This
glaring truth was also declared by the European Court of Human Rights
which found that Turkey had failed to properly investigate the role of
state officials in the Hrant Dink murder, and by the Constitutional
Court that ruled the murder was not probed efficiently, which in its
decision made reference to the ECHR verdict.
This is why the only thing that needs to be done today, as it was
yesterday, is to shed light on all aspects of the Hrant Dink murder,
and bring all those responsible to justice. As long as this is not
done, we will not be fooled by merely a single aspect of the truth
being packaged as part of a certain script and presented to us as
conclusive.
This ugly game will not only fail to provide justice, but it also
means that the culpability of the ruling power in this murder, carried
out on the basis of a consensus, will grow even more. And we know very
well that only when this culpability receives an appropriate sentence
that Turkey will truly become `New Turkey'.
http://agos.com.tr/en/article/9918/editorial-they-all-have-dirt-on-their-hands