HAYAL: ‘MIT AGENT OFFERED ME ASSISTANCE’

Hurriyet, Turkey
Feb 10 2007

Yasin Hayal, who served a ten-month jail sentence for bombing a
McDonald’s Trabzon in 2004 and more was recently arrested on charges
of contracting the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink,
said that ‘Big Brother’ Erhan Tuncel, who Hayal has accused of being
the true mastermind behind the murder, introduced him to a third figure
who claimed to be a member of MIT, the national intelligence agency.

Hayal said he met the 40-45 year-old man at London Palas in Trabzon.

"He was an MIT agent. He asked for the file number of the McDonald’s
case at the Supreme Court of Appeals, and explained that he could
help," Hayal said.

Initially refusing to speak, following the revelation that ‘Big
Brother’ Erhan Tuncel was working as an informant for both the police
and the gendarmes, Hayal said that Tuncel had been responsible
for preparing the explosives that Hayal used to bomb a McDonald’s
in Trabzon.