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Turkey: Glorification of Murder, Martyrdom and Child Soldiers

June 19, 2018 By administrator

by Uzay Bulut,

  • The celebrations are not just about the glorification of guns and killing for national or religious purposes. The events are also marked by historic revisionism in which the genocide victims are blamed for their own extermination.
  • There are many factors that drive the hysteria in Turkey extolling deaths, killings and attempts to brainwash children and turn them into “voluntary martyrs”: Systematic racism, ultra-nationalism, Islamic jihad and belief in martyrdom as well as the denial of the Christian genocide combined with pride in having waged it.
  • The 2015 “Islam Law” of Austria, which Erdogan was protesting, states that “The freedom of religion is secured in the Austrian Constitution – individually, collectively and cooperatively” — and that this freedom should not be allowed to be exploited by those who incite hate or violence for any group.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned the Austrian government that “…measures taken by the Austrian chancellor are, I fear, leading the world towards a war between the cross and the crescent.” (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz recently announced that the government was shutting down a Turkish nationalist mosque in Vienna and dissolving a group called the Arab Religious Community that runs six mosques, according to the Associated Press. “Parallel societies, political Islam and tendencies toward radicalization have no place in our country,” Kurz told reporters.

“The move comes after images appeared on Twitter in April of children in a Turkish-backed mosque playing dead and reenacting the World War I battle of Gallipoli (in which an allied invasion of Ottoman Turkey was defeated). Their “corpses” were then covered in Turkish flags. The mosques association called the event ‘highly regrettable,'” according to the CBN News.

These decisions by the Austrian government also follow its 2015 “Islam Law“, which bans foreign funding of religious groups and introduces a duty for Muslim organizations to have “a positive fundamental view towards [Austrian] state and society”.

The 2015 “Islam Law” of Austria, which Erdogan was protesting, states that “The freedom of religion is secured in the Austrian Constitution – individually, collectively and cooperatively”. This freedom should not be allowed to be exploited by those who incite hate or violence for any group. European governments should be alert and take all measures available to monitor mosques — their sermons and activities — and bring to account the imams who attempt to indoctrinate Muslims in teachings that imperil the safety and liberty of others.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned the Austrian government that “These measures taken by the Austrian chancellor are, I fear, leading the world towards a war between the cross and the crescent,” he said, referring to Christianity and Islam. “You do this and we sit idle? It means we will take some steps too.” He added that the “western world should get their act together.”

Austria is not the first European government taking precautions against Islamic radicalization. In 2016, the Washington Post reported:

After three major terrorist attacks in the last year and a half, public outrage has forced the French government to respond…

…Prime Minister Manuel Valls called for an outright ban on the foreign funding of mosques in France “for a period to be determined.” Days later, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced that, in fact, more concrete measures had already been taken: Since December 2015, he said, 20 Salafist mosques were shut down altogether.

“There is no place in France for those who call for and incite hatred in prayer halls or in mosques,” Cazeneuve said.

Children reenacting the WW1 and playing dead at a place of worship might be considered out of ordinary for the 21st century Austria and other EU countries, yet the public use of “child soldiers” in military costumes and with “toy guns” is extremely widespread in Turkey.

At a private kindergarten in the city of Kırıkkale, for example, children between the ages of 3 and 6 were also made to put on military costumes and take up “toy arms” to commemorate the 97th anniversary of the battle of Gallipoli in 2012. According to news reports, “the martyred students were covered with Turkish flags.”

Such commemorations that normalize and even glorify killing are officially organized in Turkey. Events celebrating “the liberation from enemy forces” of every city and town across Turkey are held annually. The “enemies” are Western powers such as Britain, France, Russia and Greece as well as the Christian peoples of Turkey, who are portrayed as “criminal traitors”, including Armenians, Anatolian Greeks and others. In many of these events, stage plays are performed by locals including children who “wipe out the enemy from the homeland and sacrifice their own lives” during and after the WW1.

In 2011, for instance, during the ceremony of the liberation of the city of Bayburt, children in military costumes and with guns were put on stage. The “martyred” ones were – as usual – covered in Turkish flags.

There are countless examples.[1]

The celebrations are not just about the glorification of guns and killing for national or religious purposes. The events are also marked by historic revisionism in which the victims of the 1914-1923 Christian genocide are blamed for their own extermination.

“The Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks,” by contrast, the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) announced in 2007.

Turkish historiography asserts that Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks were “dealt with” by Turks for their “criminal and treacherous” activities such as their political cooperation with other countries and the desire of these groups to establish an independent state of their own.

On January 5, 2018, for instance, celebrated as the day the city of Adana was “liberated from enemies”, the city’s mayor, Hüseyin Sözlü, held Armenians responsible for their own annihilation. “January 5 is the name of our honorable stance against French invaders who took their power from colonialism and against their local cooperators, Armenians, who they deceived with the promise of establishing a state of their own,” he said, adding that Turks “drowned the enemy” because the enemy “wanted to exterminate and wipe Turks out from history”.

The formal celebrations for the March 12 “liberation of Erzurum from the enemy invasion” were for years done by bayonetting “Armenian gang members” in public.

Some personnel at the municipality, however, declared they did not want to play the bayoneted Armenians – not because it is inhumane to do so but because they did not want to be Armenian even in a play:

“We definitely do not want to be Armenian. We don’t want to play the role of an Armenian even if they give us 1 billion Liras. We don’t want the people in the neighborhood to talk about us all the time. They should make the ceremony without bayonetting Armenians.”

Armenian gang members often are played by municipal workers in the town.: “I have played the Armenian soldier Ohannes for 30 years. Today, I will commit a massacre. I will show what Armenians did in this country and let future generations know about it. Today, I will take the lives of Mahmut and Şevket Efendi whose bread I have eaten for years,” said one retired municipal worker in 2015.

Some municipal workers, however, have expressed their unwillingness even to play the role of Armenians:

“We get negative reactions from everyone because we play the role of Armenians in these ceremonies. We are sometimes mocked. They call us ‘Armenian servants’. We don’t want to do this, but we do because our mayor orders us to.”

In 2016, the mayor, Enver Başaran, told an audience: “In your presence, I remember once again with mercy and gratitude our glorious ancestors who extirpated the Armenians whose history is filled with blood and treason from these lands.”

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also publicly promoted child martyrdom. At a party congress, he spotted a weeping six-year-old girl in a military uniform. He brought her onto the stage to tell her that if she died as a martyr, her coffin would be covered with the Turkish flag she held in her pocket. “You are ready for anything, aren’t you?” Erdogan asked. The terrified child, through her sobs, hardly managed to say “yes.”

There are many factors that drive the hysteria in Turkey extolling deaths and killings and attempts to brainwash children and turn them into “voluntary martyrs”: Systematic racism, ultra-nationalism, Islamic jihad and belief in martyrdom as well as the denial of the Christian genocide combined with pride in having waged it.

Sadly, Turkish schoolchildren have for decades been indoctrinated in these anti-humanitarian values. Why should the Austrian and other European governments be expected to allow Turkey to export the same destructive values to Europe as well?

Uzay Bulut, a journalist from Turkey, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Gatestone Institute. She is currently based in Washington D.C.


[1] A few more include the 2008 celebrations for the “liberation from enemies” of the town of Pasinler in which “the majority of the children watching the theater play had guns in their hands.”

In another event, on the 90th anniversary of “liberation of Rize from enemy forces” on March 3, 2008, an official ceremony was organized in which a stage play was performed in which two thirteen-year-old girls were made to shoot guns at “enemy forces.”

For years, public celebrations in the city of Rize were carried out by locals using blank cartridge pistols and rifles, but even these caused some injuries. So, in 2009, upon the instruction of the governor of the city, toy guns were used instead. “Was Rize saved with toy guns?” some locals asked. Halil Bakırcı, the mayor of the city, was not happy with the decision either. “The festival of liberation of Rize cannot be celebrated without guns,” he said.

 

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US awaits Ankara’s evidence to extradite Gulen over Russian envoy murder: Official

April 5, 2018 By administrator

In this July 17, 2016 file photo, Turkish cleric and opposition figure Fethullah Gülen speaks to members of the media at his compound in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, the United States. (Photo by AP)

In this July 17, 2016 file photo, Turkish cleric and opposition figure Fethullah Gülen speaks to members of the media at his compound in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, the United States. (Photo by AP)

A high-ranking US official says Washington is awaiting evidence from Turkey over the alleged involvement of US-based opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen in the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Ankara, Andrey Karlov, more than a year ago.

“We will review any materials the Turkish government may provide in this regard and will make any decisions about extradition on the basis or the facts and relevant US laws,” US Justice Department spokeswoman Nicole Navas Oxman told Russia’s state-owned news agency Tass.

An off-duty police officer in civilian clothing, identified as Mevlut Mert Altintas, shot down Karlov as he was inaugurating a photo exhibition in Ankara on December 19, 2016.

After carrying out the murder, the assailant went on a rant caught on camera, which saw him bawling “Don’t forget Aleppo, don’t forget Syria!”

The assassination, condemned by the Turkish and Russian leaders as an attempt to sour Ankara-Moscow ties, came amid cooperation between the countries over the Syrian crisis.

On December 21, 2016, Turkish-language Hurriyet daily newspaper identified Altintas as a member of the team providing security for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The paper said he had served in the taskforce ensuring that no harm would come to the head of state in public events. The group played second fiddle to Erdogan’s personal bodyguards.

Altintas had provided security for the Turkish president eight times since the botched putsch against Erdogan. Over all, he had served two and a half years in anti-riot police.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said at the time that Ankara blamed the Gulen movement for the assassination plot.

On January 12, Turkish security officials arrested a former employee of the country’s national telecommunications regulatory over Karlov’s murder.

On November 25, 2017, a criminal court in Ankara ordered the arrest of the chairman of the Guru Media Broadcast Group, Hayreddin Aydinbas, over the assassination.

Aydinbas had earlier given his testimony to Adem Akinci, a prosecutor from the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.

He confessed that he had links to the movement of the US-based opposition figure Fethullah Gulen, whom the Ankara government accuses of having masterminded the failed July 2016 coup.

Aydinbas claimed that had broken away from the Gulen movement back in 2008.

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Turkey gendarmerie officer: Dink’s assassin opened flag at police station at prosecutor’s directive

August 1, 2017 By administrator

Hrant dink killer turkish flagGendarmerie officer Birol Ustaoğlu, who is a defendant in the Hrant Dink murder case, gave testimony at the ongoing trial into this case, in Istanbul.

Ustaoğlu, who is detained by court decision, said after arresting Dink’s murderer Ogün Samast, they had taken him to the gendarmerie, and then to a police precinct, according to Cumhuriyet (Republic) daily of Turkey.

The gendarmerie officer stressed that the infamous photo of Samast and the police officers with a Turkish flag was taken at the police station, and on the day of his arrest.

“It was apparent that they had instructed him [Samast] to say nothing,” noted Birol Ustaoğlu. “Subsequently, a camera came to the room, Samast asked whether he could take out a [Turkish national] flag, [and] the prosecutor instructed to allow raising the flag and to definitely take a picture of this instant.”

According to the gendarmerie officer, a national intelligence officer also was in the room during the interrogation of Dink’s assassin.

Hrant Dink, the founder and chief editor of Agos Armenian weekly of Istanbul, was gunned down on January 19, 2007, outside the then office of this newspaper.

In 2011, the perpetrator, Ogün Samast, was sentenced by a juvenile court to 22 years and ten months for the murder.

After long court proceedings and appeals, however, a new probe was ultimately launched in this murder case, and regarding numerous former and serving senior Turkish officials’ complicity in this assassination.

Filed Under: Genocide, News Tagged With: Hrant dink, murder, Turkey, turkish flag

Interesting detail revealed in Hrant Dink murder case in Turkey

April 27, 2017 By administrator

The name of former prosecutor Zekeriya Öz, who was discharged on charges of being a member of the Gülen movement—which is led by US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen—and has fled Turkey, has been included in the indictment of the case into the murder of Istanbul Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

The indictment stated that Öz had telephonic conversations with Muharrem Demirkale, commander of the gendarmerie intelligence that was surveilling Dink’s murderer Ogün Samast, a day before and a day after the murder, according to Milliyet daily of Turkey.

Also, Zekeriya Öz had been at the scene at the time of the murder, and kept track of how the murder was taking place.

Muharrem Demirkale is under arrest.

Hrant Dink, the founder and chief editor of Agos Armenian bilingual weekly of Istanbul, was gunned down on January 19, 2007 in front of then office of Agos.

In 2011, the perpetrator, Ogün Samast, was sentenced by a juvenile court to 22 years and ten months for the murder.

After long court proceedings and appeals, however, a new probe was ultimately launched in this murder case, and regarding numerous former and serving senior Turkish officials’ complicity in this assassination.

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: Hrant dink, murder, Zekeriya Öz

Clues pointing to the Gulen network in the Hrant Dink murder case?

January 19, 2017 By administrator

It has been ten years since the murder of Armenian journalist, Hrant Dink. Criminal proceedings against responsible officials are still ongoing. The public prosecutor believes there are links to the Gulen network.

Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was shot on January 19, 2007 on Istanbul’s streets. Dink was the editor of “Agos,” the only Armenian newspaper in Turkey.  Investigations into his murder have been running since February 2008. An underage nationalist, Ogün Samast, was convicted of the killing and sentenced to 22 years in 2011. Another ultranationalist, Yasin Hayal, considered to have pulled the strings, was sentenced to life behind bars.

Then the trials began of public officials who were charged with instigating the murder, or at least not preventing it. In the early years, the Istanbul attorney general believed that the “Ergenekon” organization was behind the murder. This group was accused of plotting a 2003-04 coup, and was the subject of a major set of trials in Turkey in 2013.

Nationalists suspected first, but now it’s Gulen

But now, at least according to the public prosecutor’s office, all clues in the Dink case are pointing to the government’s latest internal foes, the Gulen movement.

Turkey’s government accuses the Gulen movement of organizing illegally within the police, army and the education and legal systems for years; it blames them for last year’s failed coup attempt. Ankara has been aggressively pursuing alleged members of the movement. However, at the time of Dink’s assassination, the Gulen movement was still a close ally of the ruling AK Party.

Ten years on, all eyes are now on the latest court cases with their 35 defendants. They include the former police chief in Istanbul and former secret service members.

Hakan Bakırcıoglu is one of Hrant Dink’s lawyers. He said in an interview with DW that the investigations into the public officials by the Istanbul justice department are believed to have turned up important findings. These suggest that the perpetrator, Ogün Samast, had help from third parties, including people connected to the Istanbul and Trabzon police forces. “We believe that it is important that the full truth is revealed. That is why we will press this case until our legal avenues are exhausted.”

In the coming days defense pleas will be finalized. On top of that, statements from 30 witnesses will be taken down. Then the public prosecutor will finalize the indictment.

‘We want to live up to Dink’s ideals’

At the same time, the Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos, founded by Dink, has been trying to stay in business despite financial problems. Editor Yetvart Danzikyan told DW about the last decade at the embattled paper. ” From day one, we have been trying to do justice to the struggle Dink led for peace and open dialogue.”

Danzikyan goes on to say that despite the difficult circumstances under which Agos is published, the newspaper hopes to show to society and government the dark powers behind Dink’s death. “Agos is able to exist thanks to the Armenian community. We survive from funds raised through small advertisements or subscriptions. We are read by Armenians in Armenia and also those in the diaspora. Despite everything, we will continue to be the voice of the Armenian community.”

‘Armenian issue is being exploited‘

Danzikyan says that the Armenian issue remains a dangerous and divisive one in Turkey. One example was when a representative of the pro-Kurdish HDP was banned from three parliamentary sittings because he used the term “genocide” in parliament. Danzikyan points out that the ruling AKP, the nationalist MHP and the more liberal opposition CHP all agreed on this punishment.

“It was not the first time Garo Paylan had used the term ‘genocide’ at the lectern,” Danzikyan recalls. “He had said it before. But, as you can see, such reactions are a result of the way the general atmosphere is at the moment. It’s also hard to believe that the AKP is really on the level with its actions regarding Armenians. It wasn’t in the case of the Kurdish conflict. Just like the Kurdish conflict, the Armenian issue gets exploited by the AKP to fit the current mood.”

Filed Under: Genocide, News Tagged With: Gulen, Hrant dink, murder

Turkey: 10 years of Dink murder trial

January 18, 2017 By administrator

( AGOS) One of the judges of the Dink murder case said, “Think about a book about the murder process during the trial, and when you start to read it, you know what will happen eventually.” The process leading to Hrant Dink’s death can be described exactly as such.

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“Hrant Dink is our goal”

Hrant Dink’s participation in the leftist political movements in Turkey many years before he established the Agos Journal known. Dink was probably under the custody of the state like everyone else involved in these movements. Years later, as the trial for death continues, detainee intelligence Police chief Ali Fuat Yilmazzer said they had been following Dink since the 70s.

After setting up the Agos newspaper, Dink changed the ‘category’ as well as the reason for follow-up. Hrant Dink has not been allowed to go abroad for many years without a passport. Because it was ‘the target of the state’; The state was exactly describing it. Years after the death of Dink Intelligence Branch, ” Hrant Dink Armenian activities within the scope of our target, ” he said Dink’un pursued. The date of the writing was 1997. So 10 years ago, before Dink was killed …

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Agos to the humble publishing life, Dink Continued to write at the newspaper corner. The first death threat entered the state records in January 2003. Acting on a tip that the Dink assassination will go to Sydney in the letter s d was yleniy.

The “Armenian Identity”, the excuse for making Hrant Dink a target, Titled article Series was launched in Agos on 7 November 2003. For the Armenians in Turkey, although quite challenging each period, especially life even harder for an evil genocide of Armenians in Turkey when it comes to the agenda of any of the European parliament formed. Y d crease the Armenians as it becomes constant and even reached the summit of the state language We went to the s d hate ylem As of 2003, then increased to three; It is necessary to demand protection. In January 2004, Mesrob Mutafyan, the patriarch of the Turkish Armenians, applied to the Governor of Istanbul to protect the Armenian institutions wanted. Two days after the application of Agos newspaper Hrant Dink s signature them with “get away from Turkey entitled ‘ article Published.

 

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Turkey: Video New footage of Dink murder assailant released “1.5+1 Million Armenian murdered by Turks”

September 8, 2016 By administrator

dink-footageNew footage showing the assailant in the 2007 murder of Armenian-Turkish journalistHrant Dink as he was chatting with police officers in a tea room of the police station where he was brought after being caught surfaced on Sept. 8, a day after nine-year-old other video images related to the crime were revealed.

In newly-published footage released by Channel 24, Dink murder convict Ogün Samast is seen with a group of police officers in the police station in the northern province of Samsun, where he was brought to be interrogated. During their conversation police officers are seen sitting next to Samast and asking him about the details of the act, while some others are taking photos of him, instructing him to “smile.”

The same officer who questioned Samast can be seen in the images later praising him for his act before assuring him that the images “would never be released” and that he could talk freely.

In another image, Samast can be seen posing with a Turkish flag.

In his statements, Samast, while watching surveillance camera footage of his act, is heard talking about how he conducted the murder.

“I followed him for two or three days. I took out my gun and shot him. I went and waited in front of his door; I came and shot [him],” said Samast.

On Sept. 7, footage was published by a Turkish broadcaster appearing to show that six former gendarmerie intelligence officers, who are currently being tried over links to the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), were complicit in the 2007 assassination of Dink. In the images published by A Haber, they can be seen near the scene at the time of Dink’s murder.

Dink, 52, was shot dead with two bullets to the head in broad daylight outside the offices of Agos in central Istanbul.

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

But the case grew into a wider scandal after it emerged that security forces had been aware of a plot to kill Dink but failed to act.

Relatives and followers of the case have long claimed government officials, police, military personnel and members of Turkey’s 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.

In January 2016, Supreme Court of Appeals ruled to tie the main case into Dink’s murder and prosecution into the public officers’ negligence to prevent the killing of Dink. Indictments for 26 people are now included in the merged case.

September/08/2016

Source: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/new-footage-of-dink-murder-assailant-released.aspx?pageID=238&nID=103733&NewsCatID=509

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WikiLeaks Offers $20K Reward for Information in Murder of Democratic National Committee staffer

August 9, 2016 By administrator

wikileaks offer 20kWikiLeaks is offering a reward for information in the murder of a Democratic National Committee staffer. 

WikiLeaks tweeted Tuesday that it is issuing a $20,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in the death of Seth Conrad Rich. 

  • DNC Staffer Shot, Killed in Northwest DC

Rich was shot multiple times on the 2100 block of Flagler Place NW on July 10, police said. It is possible he was killed in an attempted robbery, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said during a news conference last week.

The case remains under investigation. 

Source: WikiLeaks Offers $20K Reward for Information in Murder of DNC Staffer | NBC4 Washington http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/WikiLeaks-Offers-20K-Reward-for-Information-in-Murder-of-DNC-Staffer-Seth-Rich-389622801.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DCBrand#ixzz4GrQmny5Z

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— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 9, 2016

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Turkey: Local intel police officer warned of Dink murder ‘10 months in advance’

June 20, 2016 By administrator

REUTERS photo

REUTERS photo

A former intelligence police officer on trial for negligence in the murder of slain journalistHrant Dink said in his defense on June 20 that he had notified the state of Dink’s imminent murder “10 months before the incident,” during the fifth hearing of a court trying some 35 suspected state officials.

A public prosecutor demanded a life sentence for Muhittin Zenit, an officer at the provincial bureau of intelligence in the Black Sea province of Trabzon at the time of Dink’s murder, for “voluntary manslaughter” by withholding intelligence information that could have prevented the assassination.In his defense in the fifth hearing of the trial, Zenit denied the allegations and said he “performed his intelligence duties in the best possible way” while he was on duty in Trabzon.

“I prepared reports stating that Yasin Hayal had a big grudge against Armenians and that he would kill Dink no matter what,” Zenit said, referring to the instigator of Dink’s murderer, Ogün Samast.

Hayal was also responsible for a 2004 bomb attack targeting a McDonald’s restaurant in Trabzon for selling food during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, accompanied by his collaborator, Erhan Tuncel, who turned out to be a “deputy intelligence officer.”

In his testimony, Zenit also referred to a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling, suggesting that Trabzon police notified Istanbul police that Hayal was capable of murdering Dink but the latter failed to take action with regards to the information.

“I notified my state of the [imminent] murder [of Dink] 10 months in advance,” Zenit said.

“In which other way could I have stated in my reports that Dink was to be murdered?” he added, before apologizing to Dink’s wife Rakel Dink for failing to protect her slain husband.

“Hrant Dink was not a person who harmed this country, that’s why he was targeted. He was chosen as a target due to something he said and he was brought to death step by step,” Zenit told the court, saying he owed an apology to only one person – Rakel Dink.

Meanwhile, a group of Hrant Dink’s colleagues and rights activists named “Hrant’s Friends” once again gathered in front of the courthouse in Istanbul’s Çağlayan neighborhood and criticized as “hardly believable” the testimony of former Trabzon Police Chief Reşat Altay during the previous hearing of the trial. Trabzon’s police chief at the time of Dink’s assassination in 2007, Altay, denied the charges against him for “negligence in public duty” and demanded his acquittal during the fourth hearing of the trial on May 26, claiming that important information was withheld from him on purpose by other members of the police organization.

Altay claimed important information was withheld from him on purpose, blaming the purported “parallel state” for allegedly keeping him in the dark.

“We demanded nine years for the trial of the public official who had a responsibility in the murder,” journalist Pınar Öğünç said, speaking on behalf of Hrant’s Friends, adding they did not consider Altay’s testimony “believable.”

Öğünç reiterated their determination to continue a legal battle against negligent state officials.

Relatives and followers of the case have claimed government officials, police, military personnel and members of Turkey’s 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.

All the names of the suspects implicated in the investigation were reported to have been on duty in police departments in Istanbul, Ankara and Trabzon at the time of Dink’s murder.

Dink, 52, was shot dead with two bullets to the head in broad daylight outside the offices of Agos in central Istanbul on January 19, 2007.

Samast, then a 17-year-old jobless high-school dropout, confessed to the murder and he was sentenced to almost 23 years in jail in 2011.

But the case grew into a wider scandal after it emerged that the security forces had been aware of a plot to kill Dink but failed to act.

June/20/2016

Source: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/#panel-7

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

March 3, 2016 By administrator

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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