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  • ANKARA: Former Police Chief "Suspect in Hrant Dink Murder

    Daily Sabah, Turkey
    Nov 8 2014

    FORMER POLICE CHIEF `SUSPECT' IN JOURNALIST'S MURDER

    Daily Sabah


    ISTANBUL ' Prosecutors summoned Istanbul's former police chief,
    Celalettin Cerrah, yesterday to interrogate him about the 2007 murder
    of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

    Cerrah and former head of Istanbul police's intelligence department,
    Ahmet Ä°lhan Güler, will be treated as "suspects" in the case although
    no charges granting their arrest have yet been pressed. Cerrah and
    Güler may be detained if they refuse to visit the prosecutor's office
    for interrogation.

    Prosecutors will also hear from seven other officials from the police
    department and governorate with regard to possible negligence in the
    murder. Last month, the Justice Ministry annulled the verdict of
    nonsuit for Cerrah and other officials, paving the way for their trial
    for failing to prevent the murder.

    Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the Turkish daily Agos, was murdered
    outside his office by 17-year-old Ogün Samast on January 19 2007. An
    earlier investigation showed that the prosecutors who worked on the
    case ignored serious allegations into the involvement of top police
    officers in the murder.

    The prosecutors are accused of having ties with the Gülen Movement, a
    group whose widespread infiltration of the judiciary and police
    enabled them to influence cases or fabricate them for their own
    interests. Prosecutors allegedly dismissed allegations against Ramazan
    Akyürek and Ali Fuat Yılmazer, two senior police officers linked to
    the Gülen Movement. Akyürek and Yılmazer are accused of helping the
    murder suspects.

    http://www.dailysabah.com/investigations/2014/11/07/former-police-chief-suspect-in-journalists-murder

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