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DINK FAMILY LAWYER: DINK MURDER CLUES POINT TO COSMIC ROOM
Today's Zaman, Turkey
April 10 2015
Fethiye Cetin, one of the lawyers for the family of murdered
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, has said the killing has
links to the "cosmic room" investigation, which included landmark
cases such as the Ergenekon and Zirve cases, that was dropped in March.
In an interview with the Agos daily -- of which Dink was
editor-in-chief when he was murdered -- published on Friday, Cetin
said the government has no intention of solving the Dink murder,
adding, "It is now seeking a way to drive its political opponents
into a corner over the Dink case."
Cetin argued that the cosmic room is one of the terms used to in
relation to a type of Gladio operation run under the Special War
Department within the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) that was established
by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to counter the Soviet
threat in Turkey and in some other NATO member countries, a structure
that cannot be inspected.
She emphasized that though such illegal structures were dissolved in
many countries following the collapse of the Soviet Union, some from
the Special War Department had created new enemies and continued its
unlawful actions.
"In the Dink murder case, you can find traces of this illegal
structure. Some officials from the department closely monitor the Dink
investigation. We know that one member of the department is writing
books under a pseudonym. We should carefully pursue traces of the Dink
investigation case. For instance, we should focus on those who are
monitoring the Dink probe closely from the department," Cetin noted.
"My impression is that the murder has links to the cosmic room, whose
headquarters are in the GölbaÅ~_ı district of Ankara. How did I
reach this conclusion? Former General Staff intelligence unit head
İsmail Hakkı Pekin confessed during a TV discussion on the cosmic
room that the state's secret documents are kept in GölbaÅ~_ı. Why
are all organized crimes, murders, assassinations and unsolved murders
mentioned alongside the cosmic room and the Special War Department?
The cosmic room investigation began in 2009 after the capture of
two officers, Col. Ä°brahim G. and Maj. Erkan B., from the Tactical
Mobilization Group -- a unit of the Special Forces Command -- while
they were observing the house of Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arınc
in Ankara's Cukurambar neighbourhood.
Ankara 11th High Criminal Court Judge Kadir Kayan, in December of
2009, ordered a search of the cosmic room where secret documents of
the General Staff are kept. Judge Kayan personally read the documents
confiscated in the search and took notes of the documents. After
the completion of the investigation, Judge Kayan sent his report to
Mustafa Bilgili, the prosecutor in charge of the investigation.
After examining the data, Bilgili decided to widen the investigation
and started looking into ties between the cosmic room and other
landmark cases such as the Ergenekon case -- which investigated an
alleged clandestine group nested in the military and the government
-- and the Zirve Publishing House massacre case, in which three
missionaries were killed by five ultranationalists in 2007.
The court hearing the Zirve massacre case had also requested the
documents from the cosmic room case. The documents that were sent by
the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office have been attached to the
Zirve case. However, the government's secret deal with the Ergenekon
convicts, who were later released pending a retrial, apparently halted
work on major cases -- including the cosmic room investigation --
which could have shed light on many unresolved murders in Turkey.
A decision made by the Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office in March
to drop the five-year investigation into the cosmic room of the
General Staff's Special Forces Command has fueled more controversy
over government attempts to sweep damaging secrets under the carpet.
http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_dink-family-lawyer-dink-murder-clues-point-to-cosmic-room_377651.html
From: A. Papazian
Today's Zaman, Turkey
April 10 2015
Fethiye Cetin, one of the lawyers for the family of murdered
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, has said the killing has
links to the "cosmic room" investigation, which included landmark
cases such as the Ergenekon and Zirve cases, that was dropped in March.
In an interview with the Agos daily -- of which Dink was
editor-in-chief when he was murdered -- published on Friday, Cetin
said the government has no intention of solving the Dink murder,
adding, "It is now seeking a way to drive its political opponents
into a corner over the Dink case."
Cetin argued that the cosmic room is one of the terms used to in
relation to a type of Gladio operation run under the Special War
Department within the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) that was established
by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to counter the Soviet
threat in Turkey and in some other NATO member countries, a structure
that cannot be inspected.
She emphasized that though such illegal structures were dissolved in
many countries following the collapse of the Soviet Union, some from
the Special War Department had created new enemies and continued its
unlawful actions.
"In the Dink murder case, you can find traces of this illegal
structure. Some officials from the department closely monitor the Dink
investigation. We know that one member of the department is writing
books under a pseudonym. We should carefully pursue traces of the Dink
investigation case. For instance, we should focus on those who are
monitoring the Dink probe closely from the department," Cetin noted.
"My impression is that the murder has links to the cosmic room, whose
headquarters are in the GölbaÅ~_ı district of Ankara. How did I
reach this conclusion? Former General Staff intelligence unit head
İsmail Hakkı Pekin confessed during a TV discussion on the cosmic
room that the state's secret documents are kept in GölbaÅ~_ı. Why
are all organized crimes, murders, assassinations and unsolved murders
mentioned alongside the cosmic room and the Special War Department?
The cosmic room investigation began in 2009 after the capture of
two officers, Col. Ä°brahim G. and Maj. Erkan B., from the Tactical
Mobilization Group -- a unit of the Special Forces Command -- while
they were observing the house of Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arınc
in Ankara's Cukurambar neighbourhood.
Ankara 11th High Criminal Court Judge Kadir Kayan, in December of
2009, ordered a search of the cosmic room where secret documents of
the General Staff are kept. Judge Kayan personally read the documents
confiscated in the search and took notes of the documents. After
the completion of the investigation, Judge Kayan sent his report to
Mustafa Bilgili, the prosecutor in charge of the investigation.
After examining the data, Bilgili decided to widen the investigation
and started looking into ties between the cosmic room and other
landmark cases such as the Ergenekon case -- which investigated an
alleged clandestine group nested in the military and the government
-- and the Zirve Publishing House massacre case, in which three
missionaries were killed by five ultranationalists in 2007.
The court hearing the Zirve massacre case had also requested the
documents from the cosmic room case. The documents that were sent by
the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office have been attached to the
Zirve case. However, the government's secret deal with the Ergenekon
convicts, who were later released pending a retrial, apparently halted
work on major cases -- including the cosmic room investigation --
which could have shed light on many unresolved murders in Turkey.
A decision made by the Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office in March
to drop the five-year investigation into the cosmic room of the
General Staff's Special Forces Command has fueled more controversy
over government attempts to sweep damaging secrets under the carpet.
http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_dink-family-lawyer-dink-murder-clues-point-to-cosmic-room_377651.html
From: A. Papazian