Gülenists have footage of Dink's murder: Indictment

The Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) has footage of the moment Armenian-origin Turkish journalistHrant Dink was murdered in central Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007, according to an indictment regarding the killing.

"A camera was recording when Hrant Dink was being killed. The footage is in the hands of Gülenists," said an indictment into 51 suspects, including U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, adding that the footage was recorded by Istanbul Gendarmerie Intelligence officials Yavuz Karakaya and Bekir Yokuş.

The indictment prepared by prosecutor Gökalp Kökçü named the Gendarmerie Intelligence officials at the scene of the assassination as suspects, Al Jazeera's Turkish service reported on April 25. 

Dink was shot dead in broad daylight outside the offices of the Turkish-Armenian weekly newspaper Agos, which he founded, in central Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007. 

Ogün Samast, then a 17-year-old jobless high-school dropout, confessed to the murder and was sentenced to almost 23 years in jail in 2011. But the case grew into a wider scandal after it emerged that security forces had been aware of a plot to kill Dink but failed to act.

According to the indictment, the footage of the killing emerged after Samast was apprehended.  

A 44-second video of Samast holding a Turkish flag with police and gendarmerie officers in the police headquarters of the Black Sea province of Samsun emerged not long after he was apprehended in the wake of the murder. The prosecutor's office subsequently obtained the whole video, which reportedly showed Samsun Provincial Gendarmerie Command Department head Murat Bayrak making Samast watch a video from a cellphone. 

Accordingly, Samast was asked to provide testimony regarding...