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KEY FIGURE IN HRANT DINK MURDER DETAINED IN ANKARA
13:50 â~@¢ 26.02.15
A high-ranking Turkish police chief has been detained in Ankara as
part of the investigation into the 2007 murder of Turkish-Armenian
journalist Hrant Dink, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Ramazan Akyurek, who was detained in Ankara on Feb. 26, had served as
the head of the police in the Black Sea province of Trabzon between
December 2003 and May 2006. He then served as the head of Police
Intelligence between May 2006 and October 2009. Dink was murdered in
January 2007.
Akyurek was removed from his position right after the Dec. 17, 2013,
corruption and graft operation, along with hundreds of other senior
police officers allegedly linked to U.S.-based Islamic scholar
Fethullah Gulen, the government's ally-turned-nemesis. An Ankara
court had rejected Akyurek's dismissal in January 2014.
The Istanbul Prosecutor's Office initially aborted an ongoing probe
into the alleged negligence of nine public servants, but the 8th Heavy
Penal Court in Istanbul's Bakırköy district cancelled the decision,
reopening the probe on June 6, 2014.
Akyurek was detained after all the criminal files regarding the Dink
murder were combined into a single probe in Istanbul, as instructed
by Istanbul Prosecutor Gökalp Kökcu.
In his testimony in October 2014, Akyurek had placed the blame of
the murder on the Istanbul Police Director, while using the phrases
"I don't remember" and "I don't know" a total of 27 times in response
to the prosecutor's questions.
Under Turkish law, the crime described as "committing a premeditated
murder through an act of negligence" has the penalty of a maximum 20
to 25-year prison sentence.
Previously, three high-ranking police officials, Muhittin Zenit, Ozkan
Mumcu and Ercan Demir, had been arrested by the court in the Dink case.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/02/26/hrant/1602005
13:50 â~@¢ 26.02.15
A high-ranking Turkish police chief has been detained in Ankara as
part of the investigation into the 2007 murder of Turkish-Armenian
journalist Hrant Dink, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Ramazan Akyurek, who was detained in Ankara on Feb. 26, had served as
the head of the police in the Black Sea province of Trabzon between
December 2003 and May 2006. He then served as the head of Police
Intelligence between May 2006 and October 2009. Dink was murdered in
January 2007.
Akyurek was removed from his position right after the Dec. 17, 2013,
corruption and graft operation, along with hundreds of other senior
police officers allegedly linked to U.S.-based Islamic scholar
Fethullah Gulen, the government's ally-turned-nemesis. An Ankara
court had rejected Akyurek's dismissal in January 2014.
The Istanbul Prosecutor's Office initially aborted an ongoing probe
into the alleged negligence of nine public servants, but the 8th Heavy
Penal Court in Istanbul's Bakırköy district cancelled the decision,
reopening the probe on June 6, 2014.
Akyurek was detained after all the criminal files regarding the Dink
murder were combined into a single probe in Istanbul, as instructed
by Istanbul Prosecutor Gökalp Kökcu.
In his testimony in October 2014, Akyurek had placed the blame of
the murder on the Istanbul Police Director, while using the phrases
"I don't remember" and "I don't know" a total of 27 times in response
to the prosecutor's questions.
Under Turkish law, the crime described as "committing a premeditated
murder through an act of negligence" has the penalty of a maximum 20
to 25-year prison sentence.
Previously, three high-ranking police officials, Muhittin Zenit, Ozkan
Mumcu and Ercan Demir, had been arrested by the court in the Dink case.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/02/26/hrant/1602005