Friends of Hrant: they concealed it together
The trial of public
officials continues today with the defence of Ramazan Akyürek,
who was the chief of Security General Directorate Intelligence Branch
at the time of murder. The hearing will continue on December 20, 22
and 23.
Friends of Hrant gathered in front of the court house today. As the 10th anniversary of the murder of Hrant Dink gets closer, they provided information about the course of the case.
Reading the statement on behalf of Friends of Hrant, Bülent Aydın said: “For years, we have been saying that the public officials who have a hand in organizing and concealing this murder should be tried with perpetrators.” He said that those public officials were started to be tried in 2015 and it turned out that nobody did anything to prevent this murder.
Aydın also said that they are waiting for the indictment against gendarme personnel to be issued: “If the case against gendarme personnel is joined with this one, our demand will be partly fulfilled.”
In the statement, it is also noted: “The recent developments in the case was staring in the face even right after the murder. However, the government did nothing to reveal the crime organization, until it had the chance to pin the crime on Gulenist circles. They concealed this murder together.”
