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KEY POLICE CHIEF ALLEGEDLY BLOCKED EFFORTS TO PREVENT DINK MURDER
Today's Zaman, Turkey
March 5 2015
March 05, 2015, Thursday/ 17:59:08/ FAZLI MERT / ISTANBUL
Engin Dinc, who headed the intelligence unit in Trabzon at the time
of the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and who now
serves as the head of the National Police Department's intelligence
unit, allegedly blocked efforts to prevent the murder by misdirecting
the police in an intelligence report he sent regarding the possible
assassination of Dink.
Dink was shot dead outside his newspaper's office in Å~^iÅ~_li,
Ä°stanbul, on Jan. 19, 2007.
According to a report published in Bugun daily on Thursday, Ä°stanbul
Public Prosecutor Gökalp Kökcu, who is conducting the ongoing Dink
murder investigation, has been concealing a confidential document
revealing that Dinc misguided the police with false intelligence.
Before the murder, several intelligence reports sent by the Trabzon
police to the National Police Department had warned that Yasin Hayal,
a key figure in the murder trial, was planning to assassinate Dink.
According to the report, Dinc provided the police departments in Ankara
and Ä°stanbul with false intelligence in these reports, causing the
police to fail to capture Hayal before the murder was committed.
The daily also claimed that Kökcu has not been taking any legal
action against Dinc although he has the document that proves Dinc's
misconduct.
It is also claimed in the report that the prosecutor is deliberately
planning not to reveal the document in order to be able to put the
blame on the Gulen movement, also known as the Hizmet movement,
inspired by the teachings of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen.
The Turkish government and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have been
battling against the movement's followers since a major corruption
and bribery probe that implicated many state officials. They accuse
the movement of being behind the probe.
The daily's report also stated that former intelligence unit chief
Ramazan Akyurek, who was arrested on Feb. 27 in the Dink murder probe,
took steps to attempt to prevent the assassination. He had sent a
note to police departments in 81 Turkish provinces warning them about
possible attacks on Turkish-Armenian people.
As the investigation into Dink's murder continues, all eyes are now
focused on Dinc, who headed the intelligence unit in Trabzon in 2007
before later being promoted to a national role. Since the murder,
several people working under Dinc have been arrested on charges of
involvement in the murder, but many have recently pointed to his
possible involvement.
Three police officers -- Ercan Demir, Ozkan Mumcu and Muhittin Zenit --
who worked under Dinc in the intelligence unit of the Trabzon Police
Department were arrested in January as part of an expanded probe into
Dink's murder. All three police officers had said in their testimonies
that Dinc was the highest authority at the Trabzon Police Department's
intelligence unit, adding that the intelligence reports about Dink
had been prepared by Dinc.
Despite the collection of testimonies pointing the finger a Dinc, the
prosecutor conducting the ongoing murder probe decided not to summon
Dinc to testify. This has triggered suspicion in some circles as to
whether someone is providing Dinc with immunity against prosecution.
http://www.todayszaman.com/national_key-police-chief-allegedly-blocked-efforts-to-prevent-dink-murder_374424.html
Today's Zaman, Turkey
March 5 2015
March 05, 2015, Thursday/ 17:59:08/ FAZLI MERT / ISTANBUL
Engin Dinc, who headed the intelligence unit in Trabzon at the time
of the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and who now
serves as the head of the National Police Department's intelligence
unit, allegedly blocked efforts to prevent the murder by misdirecting
the police in an intelligence report he sent regarding the possible
assassination of Dink.
Dink was shot dead outside his newspaper's office in Å~^iÅ~_li,
Ä°stanbul, on Jan. 19, 2007.
According to a report published in Bugun daily on Thursday, Ä°stanbul
Public Prosecutor Gökalp Kökcu, who is conducting the ongoing Dink
murder investigation, has been concealing a confidential document
revealing that Dinc misguided the police with false intelligence.
Before the murder, several intelligence reports sent by the Trabzon
police to the National Police Department had warned that Yasin Hayal,
a key figure in the murder trial, was planning to assassinate Dink.
According to the report, Dinc provided the police departments in Ankara
and Ä°stanbul with false intelligence in these reports, causing the
police to fail to capture Hayal before the murder was committed.
The daily also claimed that Kökcu has not been taking any legal
action against Dinc although he has the document that proves Dinc's
misconduct.
It is also claimed in the report that the prosecutor is deliberately
planning not to reveal the document in order to be able to put the
blame on the Gulen movement, also known as the Hizmet movement,
inspired by the teachings of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen.
The Turkish government and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have been
battling against the movement's followers since a major corruption
and bribery probe that implicated many state officials. They accuse
the movement of being behind the probe.
The daily's report also stated that former intelligence unit chief
Ramazan Akyurek, who was arrested on Feb. 27 in the Dink murder probe,
took steps to attempt to prevent the assassination. He had sent a
note to police departments in 81 Turkish provinces warning them about
possible attacks on Turkish-Armenian people.
As the investigation into Dink's murder continues, all eyes are now
focused on Dinc, who headed the intelligence unit in Trabzon in 2007
before later being promoted to a national role. Since the murder,
several people working under Dinc have been arrested on charges of
involvement in the murder, but many have recently pointed to his
possible involvement.
Three police officers -- Ercan Demir, Ozkan Mumcu and Muhittin Zenit --
who worked under Dinc in the intelligence unit of the Trabzon Police
Department were arrested in January as part of an expanded probe into
Dink's murder. All three police officers had said in their testimonies
that Dinc was the highest authority at the Trabzon Police Department's
intelligence unit, adding that the intelligence reports about Dink
had been prepared by Dinc.
Despite the collection of testimonies pointing the finger a Dinc, the
prosecutor conducting the ongoing murder probe decided not to summon
Dinc to testify. This has triggered suspicion in some circles as to
whether someone is providing Dinc with immunity against prosecution.
http://www.todayszaman.com/national_key-police-chief-allegedly-blocked-efforts-to-prevent-dink-murder_374424.html