‘JITEM BEHIND HRANT DINK ASSASSINATION’
Today’s Zaman
18 August 2009, Tuesday
The assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was
fatally shot outside his office by an ultranationalist teenager,
was the work of the secret gendarmerie intelligence unit JITEM,
whose existence has been denied by officials, according to a document
included in the third indictment into Ergenekon, a clandestine gang
accused of plotting to overthrow the government.
According to the document, seized from the computer of Turhan Comez,
a former deputy from the Justice and Development Party (AK Party)
and a suspect at large in the Ergenekon trial, a man called Yusuf
Ziyad, who is said to be a Kurd living in the Kurdish-controlled
region of northern Iraq, says JITEM; retired Gen. Veli Kucuk, who
is currently under arrest as part of the Ergenekon investigation;
and the National Police Department were behind the Dink murder.
It is also claimed in the document that Kucuk and another retired
general, H.K., were behind a number of unsolved murders and terrorist
activities in northern Iraq. On the 13th page of the document,
Ergenekon suspects including Comez, retired Gen. Hurþit Tolon, former
National Police Department Special Operations Unit Deputy Chairman
Ibrahim Þahin, retired Gen. Þener Eruygur, retired Capt. Muzaffer
Tekin, lawyer Kemal Kerincsiz, former Organized Crime Unit Director
Adil Serdar Sacan, Workers’ Party (ÝP) Chairman Doðu Perincek and
journalist Yalcýn Kucuk are mentioned under the title of "Those
leading these formations."
In the indictment, a conversation between Emin Gurses, an associate
professor who is currently under arrest as part of the Ergenekon
investigation and another Ergenekon suspect, Lt. Col. Mustafa Donmez,
also gives clues about the Dink murder. In the phone recording,
Gurses tells Donmez, "The murder of Hrant Dink has been a good kind
of warning to those people."
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
