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    POLICE IMPLICATED IN DINK CASE PROMOTED

    armradio.am
    16.05.2012 12:36

    A police chief accused of negligence during the assassination of Hrant
    Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist murdered outside his office in
    Istanbul in 2007, received a promotion through the unanimous voting
    of a commission in the Turkish Police Headquarters.

    The commission decided to promote Ali Fuat Yılmazer, who was serving
    as a deputy director in charge of intelligence at the Istanbul Police
    Department at the time of Dink's assassination, from second to first
    class police director during a meeting May 12.

    The promotion allows Yılmazer to be appointed to the offices of
    provincial police chief or the head of a department, according to
    the daily Milliyet.

    Yılmazer is currently serving as the head of the Witness Protection
    and Bomb Demolition Departments in Ankara. His name was also implicated
    in a report prepared by the Prime Ministry Inspection Board on Dink's
    assassination.

    The controversial police chief also headed the intelligence unit
    in charge of technical tracking during preliminary preparations in
    the investigations of a number of high-profile cases, including the
    Ergenekon probe.

    Yılmazer's promotion also follows the promotion of other police
    officers implicated in the Dink case. Ahmet İlhan Guler, the
    intelligence branch director of the Istanbul police at the time of
    Dink's murder, had also received the same promotion last year.

    Yılmazer's name was also among the list of police officers who have
    been called back toAnkara following a recent crisis between Turkey's
    Intelligence and police staff early this February.

    Ramazan Akyurek, a former inspector at the Police Headquarters, was
    also appointed as the head of his department, despite the controversial
    allegations about him in connection with Dink's murder during his
    tenure as the head of the Turkish Police Intelligence Department,
    Hurriyet Daily News reports.

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