Hürriyet, Turkey
Jan 31 2007
Mehmet Y.Yilmaz:Why is the Istanbul Chief of Police still on his job?
As the investigation into the murder of journalist Hrant Dink
deepens, more and more information pointing to negligence on the part
of the Istanbul police force is emerging. In February of 2006,
"police informant" Erhan Tuncel, who is currently arrest in
connection with Dink’s murder, told the Trabzon Police Headquarters
that Yasin Hayal was concocting plans to shoot Dink.
And on February 19, 2006, the Trabzon Police Headquarters sent a
written message to the Istanbul Police Headquaters warning about
Tuncel’s statement. Contained in the written message was information
pertaining to the address in Istanbul where Hayal might be found. But
when the Istanbul police weren’t able to obtain any real information
from the address given, they left the written warning from the
Trabzon police somewhere in the whirlwind of the city’s bureaucracy,
forgetting all about it.
What this news does is illuminate two separate and clear cases of
negligence:
1-The Trabzon police did not watch carefully the actions of a person
that they had been given serious warnings about by another person
involved in the McDonald’s bombing. And while ignoring these
warnings, that person, Yasin Hayal, gathered youth from the region
around him, started to train them in weaponry, and then sent one to
Istanbul to kill Hrant Dink.
2- The Istanbul police forces ignored the one warning sent to them by
the Trabzon police, and never offered Hrant Dink the protection he
should have received.
The person who is responsible for the first case of negligence, the
Trabzon Police Chief, was removed from his position. As for the
person responsible for the second case of negligence, the Istanbul
Chief of Police, he is still on the job. Meanwhile, the Interior
Minister, Abdulkadir Aksu, says that the inspectors in this case are
working hard in their ongoing investigation. And so I ask: wouldn’t
the removal of Istanbul’s Chief of Police from his position provide
some salvation for this operation?
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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