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CHP LEADER PUTS DINK HIT BLAME ON THE RULING PARTY
Hurriyet Daily News
Jan 25 2012
Main opposition leader Kemal Kılıcdaroglu said yesterday the ruling
Justice and Development Party (AKP) protected officials involved in
the probe into the murder of ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink
and was directly responsible for the contentious verdict in the case.
"Favorite bureaucrats of the AKP destroyed evidence and kept it away
from the case file. The trial was conducted under the supervision
and guardianship of the AKP," Kılıcdaroglu said yesterday at the
parliamentary group meeting of his Republican People's Party (CHP).
He mentioned Muammer Guler, Istanbul governor when Dink was gunned
down outside his office on Jan. 19, 2007, who is now an AKP deputy,
and the city's then-Police Chief Celalettin Cerrah, who has since
been promoted to the post of Osmaniye governor.
The court ruled last week that no illegal organization was behind
the self-confessed gunman, unleashing nationwide outrage. No public
officials have been charged in the case, even though intelligence of
an assassination plot against Dink was sent to Istanbul police months
before the murder.
"The judge decides according to evidence. Officials backed by the
AKP did not make this evidence available," Kılıcdaroglu said.
Hurriyet Daily News
Jan 25 2012
Main opposition leader Kemal Kılıcdaroglu said yesterday the ruling
Justice and Development Party (AKP) protected officials involved in
the probe into the murder of ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink
and was directly responsible for the contentious verdict in the case.
"Favorite bureaucrats of the AKP destroyed evidence and kept it away
from the case file. The trial was conducted under the supervision
and guardianship of the AKP," Kılıcdaroglu said yesterday at the
parliamentary group meeting of his Republican People's Party (CHP).
He mentioned Muammer Guler, Istanbul governor when Dink was gunned
down outside his office on Jan. 19, 2007, who is now an AKP deputy,
and the city's then-Police Chief Celalettin Cerrah, who has since
been promoted to the post of Osmaniye governor.
The court ruled last week that no illegal organization was behind
the self-confessed gunman, unleashing nationwide outrage. No public
officials have been charged in the case, even though intelligence of
an assassination plot against Dink was sent to Istanbul police months
before the murder.
"The judge decides according to evidence. Officials backed by the
AKP did not make this evidence available," Kılıcdaroglu said.