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Dink murder investigation: Tireless prisoners detained Ali Extract

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Dink-istanbul(Agos) Under investigation for the murder of Hrant Dink, he was taken into custody more than 3 Trabzon Gendarmerie officials, detention number 28 appeared. The period between Trabzon Provincial Gendarmerie Regiment Commander Ali Öz there. Detained in Trabzon Gendarmerie Intelligence Branch officer Ergun Tireless was also arrested.

Chief of Agos newspaper Hrant Dink, the period taken into custody under investigation for the murder of Trabzon Gendarmerie Intelligence Branch officer decided to arrest Ergun tireless.

Istanbul Chief Prosecutor’s Office of Terrorism and Organized Crime Bureau conducted by the prosecutor Gokalp Kökçü Dink murder detained under investigation Tireless, then was sent to the police department operations Çağlayan Courthouse in Istanbul.

Tireless, upon receipt of the prosecution statements were referred to court to demand the arrest.

The court decided to arrest Erkin’s tireless.

On the other hand, the period Trabzon Provincial Gendarmerie Regiment Commander Ali Öz and Gendarmerie Intelligence officials Adnan Yildirim was detained Acer and Moses.

instruction period Trabzon Provincial Gendarmerie Regiment Commander Ali Öz and Gendarmerie Intelligence officials Adnan Yıldırım Acer and Moses was taken into custody yesterday.

The 25 suspects in connection with the investigation continues queries Terror Branch of Istanbul. Ali Öz also between the number of people detained in a police station with 3 which was 28.

Dink trial hearing tomorrow

a new hearing of the trial of public officials in connection with Dink’s murder will continue tomorrow. Hearing will be held on 8-9 and 11-12 August. Some of the lawyers of the defendants in the case, after the coup was pulled from the attorney filed a petition to the Court.

Turkish police detain gendarmerie officers, civilian in Hrank Dink probe

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hran-diinkFour gendarmerie officers of various ranks and the owner of a publishing house were detained on July 27 in Istanbul and the northern province of Trabzon, as part of the probe into the 2007 killing of Armenian-origin Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

Istanbul counter-terror police detained a gendarmerie lieutenant colonel, a gendarmerie sergeant, a gendarmerie specialized sergeant, and a press house owner in Istanbul, while Trabzon police detained a gendarmerie senior sergeant in a simultaneous operation. The suspects face charges linked to the Dink murder.

Dink, 52, was shot dead with two bullets to the head in broad daylight outside the central Istanbul office of Turkish-Armenian weekly newspaper Agos, where he was working as editor-in-chief, on Jan. 19, 2007.

He was killed by Ogün Samast, a 17-year-old jobless high-school dropout who confessed to the murder and was sentenced to almost 23 years in jail in 2011.

Relatives and followers of the case have claimed that government officials, police, military personnel and members of the National Intelligence Agency (MİT) played a role in Dink’s murder by neglecting their duty to protect the journalist.

Turkey’s top court in July 2014 ruled that the investigation into the killing had been flawed, paving the way for the trial of the police officials.

Turkish court releases a former head of the Trabzon police, arrested in connection with the Dink case

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hrant dink murdererA former head of the security department of the Trabzon police, who had been arrested for his alleged role in the murder of ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was released by decision of the Turkish court. At the request of three suspects in detention places and their lawyers at the seventh session of the trial of those responsible for this assassination, the 14th Court of Serious Crimes ordered the release of Ercan Demir, arguing that the nature of expenses.

Agos’ archive: “a German treat” from Hrant Dink

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archivesToday, in Agos’ archive, we go back to 2005, when Germany brought the Armenian Genocide to the parliamentary agenda for the first time. Here is Hrant Dink’s article “a German treat”*.

The unanimous decision on the Armenian question made by Bundestag is different from the ones made in French or other parliaments.

It is a distinct decision.

It causes serious confusion.

That is why Turkey, which reacted against such decisions with the same old attitude, cannot reacted in the same way this time. We saw the same attitude only on the first day, but Turkey had a hard time sustaining it.

Though we witnessed the anger in the protests in front of German Embassy in Ankara and then Prime Minister Erdoğan’s accessing Schröder of being “a spineless politician” on the first day, we came around very quickly on the next day.

We realized that the same old attitude doesn’t mean anything this time.

Because the German decision is really different than the others.

It is a German treat after all.

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The previous decisions were only against Turkey. Their target was Turkey alone.

They were accusing Turkey and urging Turkey to recognize the genocide.

They were enforcing the acknowledgment of the history. However, German decision wasn’t like that.

I guess this is what they call “a German treat”.

Probably out of their selfishness (!), they divided the responsibility fifty-fifty.

They haven’t laid the whole burden on Turkey.

They took the half of it.

They say, “We are guilty, too.”

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Well, what will Turkey do in face of this treat?

Which treat will they use in response to it?

Saying “Armenian lobby in Germany influenced the Bundestag” is not credible even for themselves, because there are at most 25.000 Armenians living in Germany. And officially, over 3 million Turks live in Germany.

Saying, “Germany treats us as an enemy” would be showing ingratitude. Germany is an eternal ally to Turkey.

And especially during the blood-soaked days of 1915, they were like “buddies.”

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They could have said, “Merkel doesn’t want us anyway, she did this”, if it wasn’t a unanimous decision. They could have pulled off such a trick, but they cannot do it, since this decision hasn’t made only by Merkel’s party; there is a complete unanimity.

Greens and Social Democrats, who support Turkey, agree on the decision as well.

Some people say, “Germans are genociders anyway, they try to find genocider partners with this decision”, but this is nonsense.

Because people would say, “Now that you know they are genociders, why are you an eternal ally to them?”

After all, there is a saying: “Rotten apple spoils the barrel.”

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For good and all, these people betrayed Turkey.

They didn’t use the term “genocide”, bu they caused an even worse situation.

The worst part is that they broke the routine in Turkey.

And Turkey is at a loss.

If they said “You committed genocide”, it would have been better.

Since they know how to respond to that.

They could say, “No, we didn’t do such a thing. Armenians killed us, here are the mass graves.”

But now, Germans say, “We also have a hand in it.”

What could you say to those genociders?

Is it possible to say, “No, you are good people, please reconsider it, you cannot have a hand in it”?

In short, betrayal of “the buddy” is the worst of all indeed!

*This article was published on June 24, 2005 on Agos.

** “German treat” is a term used in Turkish indicating that each person participating in a group activity pays for themselves, rather than any person paying for anyone else, particularly in a restaurant bill. In English, it is called “Dutch treat” or “going Dutch”.  

Turkey Former inspector charged with covering up for suspected officials in Dink murder

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dnk.thumbThe Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has completed its investigation into a former chief civil inspector who allegedly prevented the detection of public officials involved in the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

The indictment against Mehmet Ali Özkılınç demands up to 15 years in jail on charges of “intentionally helping an armed terrorist group without being a member,” citing the “Fetullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ)/ Parallel State Structure (PDY).”

The document claims that Özkılınç “acted with the intention of preventing the detection of public officials who contributed to killing Hrant Dink by suspects who are FETÖ/PDY members and executives.”

The indictment – in which Dink’s family members including Dink’s wife Rakel Dink, brother Hasrof Dink, son Arat Dink and daughters Delal and Sera Dink are named as complainants – said Özkılınç was responsible for organizing the preliminary examination and investigation reports that were prepared to detect public officials involved in the murder.

The document touched on the findings that Özkılınç along with Şükrü Yıldız, another former chief civil inspector and a suspect in the main Dink case, did not use the report containing information that “Hrant Dink was going to be killed by Yasin Hayal” in 13 separate reports that were jointly prepared. It also claimed that Özkılınç acted in line with the “FETÖ/PDY” in all reports to which he contributed and directly prepared.

Prosecutors have also demanded that the indictment be merged with the main Dink case, which is being overseen by the Istanbul 14th Heavy Penal Court.

Dink, the former editor-in-chief of weekly Agos, was shot dead outside his office in Istanbul’s Şişli district on Jan. 19, 2007, by 17-year-old Ogün Samast, who had traveled to Istanbul from the Black Sea province of Trabzon before the murder.

Relatives and followers of the case have claimed government officials, police, military personnel and National Intelligence Agency (MİT) members played a role in Dink’s murder by neglecting their duty to protect the late journalist.

Hrant Dink Foundation to Organize Western Armenian Summer Language Program

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67542Hrant Dink Foundation’s Armenian Language and Culture Summer Program will be held in Istanbul between July 11th and August 12th of 2016.

The Summer Program offers Language Courses of Western Armenian, in three proficiency levels. The course will last 5 weeks, 3 hours every weekday morning, totaling to 75 hours of coursework. The language courses being based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, participants will acquire the following skills:

Level One: A participant at this level is a starter and will learn the alphabet, to use daily expressions and to understand sentences with basic structures.
Level Two: A participant at this level has the skills of Level One, and will learn to understand the context of a given text and to express themselves in areas of interest orally.
Level Three: A participant at this level has the skills of Level One and Two, and will learn to understand and express written and oral content fluently.

Armenian Culture Courses will be held in the afternoons, from Monday to Thursday. The courses will focus on topics such as Armenian history, culture, literature, arts, Armenian community of Istanbul, Armenian politics and current affairs, in addition to workshops and activities of music, dance, cooking, cinema, cultural trips, visits and discussions.

The Language and Culture courses can be taken as complimentary or as stand-alone courses. While it is advised that applicants follow both courses, they are free to choose only one.

Cost: The tuition fee will depend on the participant’s choice of courses. The participation fee for the full program (both language and culture courses) is €350, whereas for a single course it is €200. A limited number of scholarships will be available for students based on availability of funds and places. All the travel, visa and accommodation expenses will be covered by the applicant. The Hrant Dink Foundation is ready to give assistance on the accommodation options.

Registration deadline is June 1, 2016. As the places are limited, early registration is encouraged from the following link: Registration Form

For questions please contact the Hrant Dink Foundation at:
Hermine Sayan: E-Mail: info@hrantdink.org   Phone: +90 212 2403361

Turkey: Gulen-linked police chiefs to stand trial for Dink’s murder

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turkey.thumbFollowing a court’s approval to merge two cases, former police chiefs linked to the controversial Gülen Movement will stand side-by-side with the murder convicts of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink for the first time, the Daily Sabah reports. 
The police chiefs are accused of negligence and orchestrating a cover-up before and after the 2007 murder, which sparked public outrage.
Dink, the late editor-in-chief of Agos daily, was shot dead in front of his office in Istanbul by Ogün Samast, a 17-year-old teenager who claimed he shot Dink for his anti-Turkish views. The murder, initially considered to be committed by far-right nationalists, later turned out to be a larger plot, and several police intelligence officers were arrested for deliberately covering up intelligence on the murder plot. Moreover, several police chiefs indicted in the case are accused of links to the Gülen Movement, the umbrella term used to describe the Gülenist Terror Organization (FETÖ), which is behind two alleged coup attempts in 2013, according to prosecutors.
The suspects will appear before an Istanbul court tomorrow in the case mired with allegations of corruption after former prosecutors looking into the case claimed to cover the tracks of the Gülen-linked officers’ role in the murder. The hearings will continue for three days.
The Gulen Movement is accused of trying to shift blame for the murder onto others, including the Ergenekon, an alleged gang of generals, journalists and several prominent figures who were imprisoned after a trial conducted by Gülenist prosecutors. All defendants in the Ergenekon case were released years later, after investigations revealed they were imprisoned by prosecutors and judges close to the movement based on forged and tampered evidence.
The court had earlier accepted the indictment of 26 suspects in the Dink case. Suspects include former Intelligence Department directors of the Turkish National Police, Engin Dinç and Ramazan Akyürek, former intelligence director of the Istanbul Police, Ali Fuat Yılmazer, and intelligence officers Muhittin Zenit, Ercan Demir and Özkan Mumcu. Akyürek, who was police chief in Trabzon – the hometown of Samast and his alleged accomplice, Yasin Hayal – faces aggravated life sentence. He is charged with running a terrorist organization, homicide, forgery of official documents, destroying official documents and abuse of duty. Yılmazer faces life in prison for similar charges while other officers are subject to lesser sentences for negligence and causing manslaughter by negligence as well as hiding evidence. Akyürek was arrested in February 2015 upon orders from an Istanbul court, just one day after he was detained for questioning regarding the Dink murder, while Yılmazer was arrested earlier in a separate case involving the Gülenists.
The Supreme Court of Appeals ordered the merger of two separate cases in January, marking a legal victory for Dink’s family who sought to shed light on the officials’ role in the murder. The murder took place after Dink was warned by Istanbul authorities over his work. A local official testified to the court after the murder and countered allegations that Dink was threatened with death after running a story claiming a prominent Turkish figure was in fact an Armenian woman. The official said Dink was warned against “stirring public outrage.”
Dink, an outspoken critic of both the Turkish and Armenian stance toward the mass deaths of Armenians in 1915 – labeled as “genocide” by Armenia, a term rejected by Turkey – drew ire among hardline nationalists during his lifetime. His call for the resolution of the controversial issue led to numerous death threats before his murder. He also faced several lawsuits for “denigrating Turkishness,” an act constitutionally punishable with prison time, for his articles and editorials regarding the issue.
The Gulen Movement, led by U.S.-based retired preacher Fethullah Gülen, is accused of having infiltrated Turkey’s police departments and judiciaries as well as the higher echelons of the bureaucracy. Gülenists currently face a number of trials as the judiciary, which saw a purge of prosecutors and judges linked to the movement, stepped up efforts against FETÖ. A large number of the group’s members were arrested or wanted in multiple cases ranging from illegal wiretapping to conspiring to imprison critics of the movement, money laundering and defrauding the state. Gülen is the prime suspect in all cases as head of the FETÖ and rejects returning to Turkey from Pennsylvania where he resides while Turkey seeks to speed up his extradition process

Hrant Dink murder in Trabzon Gendarmerie It was 5 minutes from intelligence

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Hrant DinkJournalist Hrant Dink murder in Trabzon Gendarmerie Intelligence officials ‘suspicious’ movement entered the investigation file. The report on the HTS record phone at Trabzon Gendarmerie Intelligence officers of Dink’s murder was found that 9 to 11 August 2006 Previously signaled 5 minutes from the Dinka’s house. The report was included in the photo provided by the office block phone signals.

Agos newspaper chief editor Hrant Dink’s murder in Trabzon omissions on foot, one of the first ring of the chain murders of the gendarmerie intelligence officers appeared to be in contact instigator Yasin Hayal. 9 imagine, according to documents in the folder additional annual cases of husband Coskun workers still on 13 May 2013 in Istanbul under investigation were interviewed by the TEM Branch. In his statement Igci, Yasin Hayal from friends in the summer of 2006, stating that he would kill a journalist, “I met with Yasin Hayal on this. ‘There was an Armenian writer Hrant Dink said.

back and forth about writing articles in the Turkish newspaper Agos. Therefore I will kill Hrant Dink, “he said,” he said. İğci, noting that imagination ask if you can find him a gun, “who after leaving my acquaintance with the name of Yasin and Master Sergeant Veysel Şahin I know as I called Peters. I’ve escalated the situation. We met in a park in Aqaba Okan Şimşek and Veysel Şahin. Okan Şimşek noted the information in detail. ‘You take the money, we will get back to you’ and we left, “he said.

‘Transition Yassin’

After receiving the money İğci imagine explaining meet again with the Gendarmerie Intelligence officers, “I told them Yasin information and documents shown to me and asked what I would do with the money I got from Yassin. Okan Şimşek told me ‘you can keep the money, we’ll let you know, we follow Yassin and his friends, “they said. I met with Search Search gendarmes after this date.

You’ve always thought that under control themselves Yassin, saying I was going to find the weapon they say gloss over Yassin my work, “he said. İğci, in September 2006 saying that Yassin himself compress the gendarmerie intelligence officers, they also told him “returned the money saying it can not find the gun”, he said, too. İğci when these officials in later interviews with the Imagination is now asking the state of the negotiations themselves, “Yasin Hayal will not do the job. under our supervision. We have done that job, “he said he had to say.

‘Post is going piercing’

İğci Dink after he was killed on January 22, 2007 the Gendarmerie Intelligence officer Sergeant Major Okan Şimşek, the NCO said said they came to Veysel Şahin and Önder Araz’s work: “In the case Okan Şimşek police to take me were definitely separated from said and workplace should not mention these issues. By calling me at work the next day and left a note in the form they want to meet me.

I then called them the number they gave me and I went to the bus station in Trabzon January 24, 2007, evening. They invited me into the van. We went for a while until cubits from the bus station. Okan Şimşek car that I should not tell anyone this event otherwise would be bad for me, this is the life that is threatening emergency, if I tell you what I know in a covered manner, saying it would jeopardize my personal safety was threatened me. They left the bus station in Trabzon, where they take me. Do not let me come right after a black pickup stopped next to me.

male party found in the pickup me ‘hemşerim almost piercing post of going,’ he said and left. I was quite surprised and could not make sense of this situation. “

‘Denied the expression’

Again after the murder of the gendarmerie intelligence officers Gazi Günay who often came to him stating that İğci, “I can not tell you what I know at this point commute warned many times. He was showing up in places I never expected. In these interviews, I refute me safety and I gave expression in the prosecutor’s office, given that I have already expressed the scenario is made up of the police results put pressure on me in my ezberleterek me he wanted me to say I gave this statement, “he said.

transferring the İğci receive the testimony of investigators from the Ministry and the Gendarmerie General Command, “the gendarmerie inspectors during phrase Süleyman Dogan and Jesus that fit its insistence police have told Ozturk, I could not construct it have told, but they said I talked to that scenario the police can be edited and lies. Colonel Suleiman nature to me, ‘This job is not your job, the job of the police, you are doing with the pressure of police work. Goodness should not freak out until you will do something, do not worry, “he said,” he said.

That office block

In addition to the folders on the report prepared for the HTS record Trabzon Gendarmerie graphics also took place about the relationship with the intelligence officer Yasin Hayal. In the report, the Gendarmerie Intelligence officials gave the phone to the Dink Dink signal 5 minutes walk from the house in Bakirkoy 9-11 August 2006 before the murder was detected.

In the report, the office block given signal was given to the photo of the phone. The report, which dates from the Gendarmerie Intelligence officers Okan Simsek, Ergun Yorulmaz was noted that the signal from Istanbul Gazi Günay phone. This date in Zechariah Catering behalf they are connected with the registered number, which turned one of these numbers before coming to Istanbul and were found to be used only in Istanbul.

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Turkey: Gendarmerie Forces Had Been Watching Dink 4 Months Prior to Assassination

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Hrant-Dink 9thISTANBUL (Agos) — It has been revealed that the Trabzon gendarmerie intelligence office had been watching Hrant Dink around his home for 4 months before he was assassinated.

Yasin Hayal’s relative Coskun Igci informed Trabzon gendarmerie intelligence office about the Dink murder in the summer of 2006. Hayal is the Turkish criminal who is serving a life sentence for inciting the individual who murdered Dink.

According to Selahattin Gunday’s report in Al Jazeera, it was also confirmed that 4 officials from the gendarmerie intelligence office came to Istanbul on August 2006.

Cellphone records of the officials from the intelligence office were examined and it showed that their phones were signaling from IIstasyon Cad. Odak İş Hanı No:l Bakırköy between August 8 and 11.

After that, Dink’s cellphone records were also examined and this examination revealed that his phone was also signaling from the same address at the same time. This address is close to Dink family’s permanent address.

In 2008, a lawsuit was filed against 3 of those officials due to neglect of duty. However, the fact that they had been following Dink in Istanbul wasn’t added to that lawsuit.

This information about the gendarmerie isn’t in the indictment prepared by prosecutor Gokalp Kokcu. This information also wasn’t included in the lawsuit that was filed against police chiefs like Faruk Sarı, Ahmet İlhan Guler, Engin Dinc, Ali Fuat Yılmazer, Sabri Uzun and Ramazan Akyurek.

On October 15, 2015, the information about the gendarmerie was separated from the lawsuit against police chiefs. This doesn’t mean that they are excluded from the investigation, but that the gendarmerie wasn’t in the indictment.

Turkey: Minister admits delay in Hrant Dink murder probe

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hrn.thumbTurkish Science, Industry and Technology Minister Fikri Işık admitted that the investigation into the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink had been delayed, and blamed the “parallel state” for the delay, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

“We accept that there has been a delay [in prosecuting the murder of Dink] because of the attempts of the Parallel State Structure to shadow the probe,” Işık responding to questions in the parliament on Jan. 19, the ninth anniversary of the prominent journalist’s assasination.

Dink, an outspoken activist for minority rights and former editor-in-chief of weekly Agos, was shot dead outside his office in Istanbul’s Şişli district on Jan. 19, 2007 by 17-year-old Ogün Samast, who had traveled to Istanbul from the Black Sea province of Trabzon before the murder.

“I underline that no cause can legitimize any attempt on someone’s life. This incident is being worked on with all details,” said Işık.

“But nothing remains secret. If we had thought different, we would not make that much effort to investigate all details of this incident and we would not give complete support to the judiciary. At the moment, we want and hope that all related institutions will work effectively in enlightening this incident as well as other unsolved murder incidents,” he added.

Işık also added that he wanted to see the instigators of Dink’s murder found and brought to face justice.

Relatives and followers of the case have long claimed that government officials, police, military personnel and members of the National Intelligence Agency (MİT) played a role in Dink’s murder by neglecting their duty to protect the journalist.

On Dec. 9, 2015, the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office approved the indictment prepared against 26 police chiefs into “negligence on public duty” in the killing of Dink.

A total of 26 police officers, including both current and former police chiefs, will be tried as the indictment in the nine-year-long investigation.

The indictment referred to U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen, a former ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), who the AKP government now accuses of heading a terrorist organization. The officials currently being investigated were suspected of having links to the Gülen movement.

The 26 police officers were charged with one count each of “forming or heading an armed terrorist group,” “membership of an armed terrorist group,” “power abuse on duty,” “manipulating, destroying and/or concealing official documents,” “deliberate murder,” “fabricating official documents by public employees” and “deliberate murder on negligence” in the case filed into public officials at the time of the assassination. All of the 26 were on duty at the time of Dink’s murder.

Hakan Bakırcıoğlu, a Dink family lawyer, said on Nov. 4 that not opening a case against former police chiefs Ahmet İlhan Güler, Celalettin Cerrah, Reşat Altay, Engin Dinç and other suspects, would exclude their integral responsibility in Dink’s murder.