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BLAME GAME CONTINUES IN DINK MURDER CASE: EX-ISTANBUL INTEL HEAD ACCUSES EX-TRABZON INTEL HEAD
20:51 â~@¢ 17.12.14
Ahmet Ä°lhan Guler, who was head of the Istanbul police's intelligence
unit at the time of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink's murder,
has accused former Trabzon police intelligence head Ramazan Akyurek of
"hiding" information about the attack, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
"From the beginning, Akyurek has had hidden information [about the
phone records belonging to Osman Hayal] from inspectors to cover up
the intelligence, to put us in a troublesome situation and to absolve
their responsibility on the issue," said Guler during his testimony to
Istanbul prosecutor Yusuf Dogan as a suspect in the Dink murder case.
The records Guler referred to belong to a phone that was used by Osman
Hayal, the brother of Yasin Hayal, who was charged with instigating
the assassination and is serving an aggravated life sentence. The
document of the phone logs that Akyurek prepared, after the chief
civil inspectors requested them, had not been researched properly,
according to Guler.
Dink was assassinated by Ogun Samast, who is serving 22 years and
10 months in a high-security F-type prison, in broad daylight on
a busy street outside the office of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian
weekly Agos in Istanbul's Å~^iÅ~_li district on Jan. 19, 2007. The
assassination caused outrage across the country, sending hundreds of
thousands to the streets in mass rallies.
Guler also claimed the Trabzon police intelligence unit sent notice
to their department saying "a significant attack will take place,"
which was different from a notice that was sent to the Turkish National
Police's Intelligence branch that said "he will be killed regardless
of its results."
The investigation into Dink's murder took a different path after
the government launched a fight against the so-called "parallel
structure," which the government uses to refer to the movement of
U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen. The Justice Ministry has
cleared the way for investigations into nine civil servants accused
of negligence in Dink's murder.
The government started the fight against the "parallel structure"
after two graft probes investigating around 100 people - including
four former ministers, their sons, the former manager of state-run
Halkbank, a construction tycoon and Azeri-Iranian businessman Reza
Zarrab, was launched in December 2013, marking Turkey's biggest ever
corruption case.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/12/17/dinkmurder/1539062
20:51 â~@¢ 17.12.14
Ahmet Ä°lhan Guler, who was head of the Istanbul police's intelligence
unit at the time of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink's murder,
has accused former Trabzon police intelligence head Ramazan Akyurek of
"hiding" information about the attack, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
"From the beginning, Akyurek has had hidden information [about the
phone records belonging to Osman Hayal] from inspectors to cover up
the intelligence, to put us in a troublesome situation and to absolve
their responsibility on the issue," said Guler during his testimony to
Istanbul prosecutor Yusuf Dogan as a suspect in the Dink murder case.
The records Guler referred to belong to a phone that was used by Osman
Hayal, the brother of Yasin Hayal, who was charged with instigating
the assassination and is serving an aggravated life sentence. The
document of the phone logs that Akyurek prepared, after the chief
civil inspectors requested them, had not been researched properly,
according to Guler.
Dink was assassinated by Ogun Samast, who is serving 22 years and
10 months in a high-security F-type prison, in broad daylight on
a busy street outside the office of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian
weekly Agos in Istanbul's Å~^iÅ~_li district on Jan. 19, 2007. The
assassination caused outrage across the country, sending hundreds of
thousands to the streets in mass rallies.
Guler also claimed the Trabzon police intelligence unit sent notice
to their department saying "a significant attack will take place,"
which was different from a notice that was sent to the Turkish National
Police's Intelligence branch that said "he will be killed regardless
of its results."
The investigation into Dink's murder took a different path after
the government launched a fight against the so-called "parallel
structure," which the government uses to refer to the movement of
U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen. The Justice Ministry has
cleared the way for investigations into nine civil servants accused
of negligence in Dink's murder.
The government started the fight against the "parallel structure"
after two graft probes investigating around 100 people - including
four former ministers, their sons, the former manager of state-run
Halkbank, a construction tycoon and Azeri-Iranian businessman Reza
Zarrab, was launched in December 2013, marking Turkey's biggest ever
corruption case.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/12/17/dinkmurder/1539062