POLICE INTELLIGENCE CHIEF REMOVED FROM OFFICE
Hurriyet Daily News
Friday, October 16, 2009
Ramazan Akyurek, the head of the Central Police Intelligence Unit,
was removed from office Friday, reported the Anatolia news agency.
Akyurek was the police chief of Trabzon prior to the Jan. 2007 murder
of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in Istanbul. The Black Sea
province was the hometown of the suspected murderers and also the
place where the murder was allegedly planned.
Appointed from Trabzon to Ankara in May 2006, Akyurek had said he
informed Istanbul police about the murder plans, but did not follow
up on the intelligence about Dink after he assumed his new office.
After Dink’s murder, 33 pages of testimony from Erhan Tuncel, one
of the leading suspects in the murder, were destroyed on Akyurek’s
order and regarded as a state secret.