Third indictment in Dink case reveals horrific facts

The third indictment written concerning the assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalistHrant Dink on Jan. 19, 2007, has revealed horrendous facts.

One of the gendarmerie officers in charge of monitoring murderer Ogün Samast was Cpt. Muharrem Demirkale. It has been found out, according to the indictment, that Demirkale spoke seven times on the phone one day before and one day after the murder with former prosecutor Zekeriya Öz, a Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) member.

Gendarmerie officers who were monitoring Samast at the time of the killing recorded his movements with physical monitoring cameras before the murder, during the murder and while running away after the murder.

In the prosecutor's indictment, it is also explained that there was an attempt to create the perception that ultranationalists were behind the Dink murder so that the groundwork could be prepared for Ergenekon operations and legal procedures to come later.

It is not a secret anyway that the Fethullahist gang was involved in the Dink murder. 

Journalist Nedim Şener's book, "Dink Murder and Intelligence Lies," which was printed just two years after the murder, reveals the existence of these links.

As a matter of fact, the attempt to associate Şener with the Ergenekon case through Odatv case coincides with the time after the publishing of this book.

The government of the time, in those years, was marching toward "the same destination," in their own terms. For this reason, despite all the objections and columns we have written, it prevented the conducting of a healthy investigation about the incident.

The investigation of security officials who were obviously involved in the incident was not allowed. Could it be that...