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    COURT REJECTS ARREST WARRANT FOR FORMER POLICE OFFICER OVER DINK'S MURDER

    Daily Sabah, Turkey
    Dec 24 2014

    DAILY SABAH

    An Istanbul court yesterday rejected an arrest warrant sought by a
    prosecutor for Faruk Sarı, the former intelligence department director
    for the Turkish National Police's Trabzon branch, over his failure
    to prevent the 2007 murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

    It is the first time that an arrest warrant for a law enforcement
    official has been sought in the case, where police officers and
    prosecutors with reported links to the controversial Gulen Movement
    have been accused of covering up their involvement in the murder
    perpetrated by 17-year-old Ogun Samast. The teen was convicted for
    shooting and killing Dink in Istanbul and had recently testified to the
    prosecutor investigating the murder. He said top police chiefs were
    aware of the murder plot but did not do anything; on the contrary,
    they encouraged him.

    Prosecutor Gökalp Kökcu interrogated Sarı, who served as the
    intelligence unit's head in Samast's hometown of Trabzon in northern
    Turkey, on charges of assisting manslaughter by neglecting intelligence
    concerning the murder, despite having a responsibility to prevent
    it. He was released pending trial by the court, which banned him from
    traveling abroad.

    Testifying on Dec. 5, Samast said Ali Fuat Yılmazer, deputy director
    of Istanbul's police intelligence department, and Ramazan Akyurek,
    Turkish National Police's intelligence department director at the
    time of the murder, knew about the plot to murder Dink and backed
    him and Yasin Hayal who masterminded the plot.

    The prosecutor's office in Istanbul previously questioned top police
    intelligence officials including Sabri Uzun, Akyurek and Yılmazer.

    Moreover, the trio is officially referred to as "suspects" in the
    prosecutor's case.

    An investigation by previous prosecutors who worked on the murder case
    revealed that they dismissed allegations about Akyurek and Yılmazer.

    Uzun, who was head of the National Police Intelligence Department,
    had claimed his subordinates had concealed evidence about the murder
    of Dink. Questioned about the murder, Uzun said Yılmazer hid an
    intelligence report from him regarding a plot to kill Dink.

    Yılmazer is currently in prison for a separate case involving illegal
    wiretapping, while Akyurek was removed from duty amid a major reshuffle
    among Turkish law enforcement last year. Earlier, he was suspended
    over allegations of destroying and leaking secret documents regarding
    the Dink investigation. Testifying to prosecutors recently, Akyurek
    admitted that he became aware of the planned murder of Dink after
    one of his subordinates presented him with an intelligence report. He
    told prosecutors he did not remember the details and thought that the
    Istanbul and Trabzon police directorate had "taken necessary measures."

    Media outlets claim both Akyurek and Yılmazer are affiliated with
    the "parallel state," the name used to describe infiltrators of the
    controversial Gulen Movement in the police and judiciary. The movement,
    headed by U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, is accused of attempting
    to overthrow the government and imprison its critics by launching
    operations by prosecutors and police loyal to them through fabricated
    and planted evidence implicating defendants in a number of cases.

    Nedim Å~^ener, a journalist who was imprisoned on what he called
    trumped-up charges after penning a book about a cover-up of
    the police's role in the murder, had claimed infiltrators in law
    enforcement who were loyal to the Gulen Movement had an active role in
    Dink's murder. Sarı, Yılmazer and Akyurek, along with other police
    officials, had filed a lawsuit against Å~^ener over his allegations,
    but he was later acquitted.

    http://www.dailysabah.com/investigations/2014/12/25/court-rejects-arrest-warrant-for-former-police-officer-over-dinks-murder



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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