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COURT OVERTURNS DECISION TO DISMISS RAMAZAN AKYUREK
Today's Zaman
May 10 2011
Turkey
The Ankara 14th Administrative Court on Tuesday overturned a Ministry
of the Interior decision to dismiss Ramazan Akyurek -- who was accused
of failing to prevent the murder of journalist Hrant Dink -- from
his post as head of the National Police Department's intelligence
department and re-appoint him as a police inspector.
Akyurek's name frequently came up during the trial of the suspects
accused of having plotted to kill Turkish-Armenian journalist Dink,
who was shot dead by a teenager claiming to be a nationalist in 2007.
Akyurek has been accused of having links to Erhan Tuncel, a suspect
accused of soliciting Ogun Samast, the hitman, to murder Dink. In
October 2009, the Ministry of the Interior removed him from his post
and reassigned him as an expert officer in the strategy development
department. Akyurek challenged the decision, and the Ankara 14th
Administrative Court on Tuesday reinstated his previous status.
The court said civil service inspectors had failed to find any
evidence supporting the accusations leveled against him in the Dink
murder trial and that he should remain at his post until further and
concrete evidence can be produced against him.
From: A. Papazian
Today's Zaman
May 10 2011
Turkey
The Ankara 14th Administrative Court on Tuesday overturned a Ministry
of the Interior decision to dismiss Ramazan Akyurek -- who was accused
of failing to prevent the murder of journalist Hrant Dink -- from
his post as head of the National Police Department's intelligence
department and re-appoint him as a police inspector.
Akyurek's name frequently came up during the trial of the suspects
accused of having plotted to kill Turkish-Armenian journalist Dink,
who was shot dead by a teenager claiming to be a nationalist in 2007.
Akyurek has been accused of having links to Erhan Tuncel, a suspect
accused of soliciting Ogun Samast, the hitman, to murder Dink. In
October 2009, the Ministry of the Interior removed him from his post
and reassigned him as an expert officer in the strategy development
department. Akyurek challenged the decision, and the Ankara 14th
Administrative Court on Tuesday reinstated his previous status.
The court said civil service inspectors had failed to find any
evidence supporting the accusations leveled against him in the Dink
murder trial and that he should remain at his post until further and
concrete evidence can be produced against him.
From: A. Papazian