New and important developments are occurring related with the Dink case.
The omissions, which are related with the road leading up to the murder and post-murder, and, which had been taken lightly previously, intentionally covered up and separated from the main folder (whether it’s an omission or not, that’s dubious), are swiftly being included in the new judicial process.
Recently, some police officers are being called in to bear testimony and some arrest warrants related with some policemen are being issued… These are all indicators of what I’ve said above.
Turkey already knows the road leading up to the murder and the ones responsible for that by heart.
The lesser-known matter is the “folder policy” that was pursued by the court board during the prosecution. This policy, despite the changes made in the members of the court board, had stayed the same.
Ogün Samast, the hit man, Erhan Tuncel and Yasin Hayal, the instigator, and the murder case, which had been constrained to the narrow surroundings of these three names, had been separated from deep relations and its political nature…
Thus, the judgment, which had been given by the court and reversed by the Supreme Court, was regarding this murder as a sporadic crime rather than an organized crime, or in Ertuğrul Özkök’s words, as the murder of angered urchins.
Throughout the prosecution, the folder had been linked with Ergenekon, and, the Samsun police, the Trabzon police force and gendarmerie, MIT members in Ankara and Istanbul, and the others had been meticulously kept away from this case. All the recourses, all the close examination and consolidation requests of the intervener had been turned down.
The political reasons behind it are still not known.
Who was protecting who and what?
What we know today is; the mechanism is working backwards.
When the general condition of the jurisdiction and the dosage of politicization in Turkey is taken into consideration, all the happenings stand in front of us as a danger, despite the instrumentalization of the case and despite the mechanism.
This happened yesterday, and there is no reason for it not to happen again tomorrow.
The conscientious pursuit should be as follows:
The most important task is to put all the responsible people, who had a part in the omission, on trial according to the 83rd Clause of the Turkish Criminal Law (a person becoming responsible for the death of another because of not conducting the executive duties he/she has).
However, more effort is needed to reveal the justifications for this omission.
The actual effort points at a political willpower and judiciary mind, which aims at establishing all the connections and carrying them to the government field.
We are frequently repeating:
Turkey’s public opinion knows this.
Sooner or later, the political power will also see this…
