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  • ANKARA: Former Intelligence Unit Head Akyurek Arrested In Dink Murde

    FORMER INTELLIGENCE UNIT HEAD AKYUREK ARRESTED IN DINK MURDER INVESTIGATION

    Today's Zaman, Turkey
    Feb 28 2015

    Former intelligence unit chief Ramazan Akyurek was arrested on Friday.

    (Photo: Cihan)

    February 27, 2015, Friday/ 21:20:46/ TODAYSZAMAN.COM / ISTANBUL

    Former intelligence unit chief Ramazan Akyurek was arrested on Friday
    over an investigation into the 2007 killing of Turkish-Armenian
    journalist hrant dink.

    The former police chief, who was the head of the trabzon Police
    intelligence department at the time of Dink's murder, was detained
    on Thursday as part of the investigation.

    Akyurek was suspended from duty in March following accusations of
    negligence in preventing Dink's murder.

    His name has come up frequently during the trial of suspects accused
    of plotting to kill Dink. Akyurek had been accused of having links
    to Erhan Tuncel, who is a suspect accused of soliciting Ogun Samast
    to murder Dink.

    Dink, the editor-in-chief of the Agos newspaper, was assassinated
    in broad daylight outside his office on Jan. 19, 2007. He was shot
    and killed by an ultra-nationalist teenager, Samast. The hit man
    and 18 others were brought to trial. Since then, the lawyers for
    the Dink family and the co-plaintiffs in the case have presented
    evidence indicating that Samast did not act alone. Another suspect,
    Yasin Hayal, was given life in prison for inciting Samast to murder.

    After the Supreme Court of Appeals partially reversed a lower court's
    verdict, which said there were no criminal rings behind the murder,
    a re-trial kicked off in October 2014, in which the suspects are
    charged with being members of a criminal ring.

    On Jan. 12, the prosecutor of the case issued arrest warrants for
    Trabzon Police Department Assistant Commissioner Ozkan Mumcu and
    another police officer, Muhittin Zenit, on charges of negligence and
    misconduct in Dink's murder.

    http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_former-intelligence-unit-head-akyurek-arrested-in-dink-murder-investigation_373887.html

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