HRANT DINK MURDER LINKED TO SECRET INTELLIGENCE UNIT
2009/08/18 | 12:09
Diaspora
An article in the August 18 edition of Today’s Zaman regarding the
murder of Hrant Dink reports that according to a document included in
the third indictment of Ergenekon, a secret gendarmerie intelligence
unit called JITEM was behind the murder.
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.
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