HEAD OF ISTANBUL POLICE INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT DISMISSED

NTV MSNBC, Turkey
Feb 7 2007

One policeman was dismissed from the Trabzon police force, while one
gendarme was posted to another location over photographs and video
footage taken of alleged killer of prominent journalist Hrant Dink.

Guncelleme: 11:31 TSÝ 07 Þubat 2007 CarþambaANKARA – The expanding
investigation into the actions of Turkish police over the assassination
of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink last month has spread to
the Istanbul police force.

Ahmet Ilhan Guler, the head of Istanbul police intelligence
department, was removed from his position late Monday after being
questioned for two days by investigators over claims his office had
received information that Dink was to be killed. The office of the
Istanbul governor said that Guler had been dismissed for safety of
the investigation.

During his questioning Guler blamed the Trabzon police, who provided
the initial information about the threat to Dink. Istanbul had been
provided with information in February last year that there was a
plot to kill Dink, which Guler said Trabzon police had failed to
substantiate.

Private television station NTV obtained information showing that
Trabzon police received other leads on the plot to kill Dink but did
not pass them on to the Istanbul police.

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