Public officials in the bill of indictment
On October 20, the prosecutor of The Bureau of Terror and Crime Organizations of İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office Gökalp Kürkçü prepared a bill of indictment about 25 public officials. In this bill of indictment, which might be added to the case that is tried by Istanbul 5th High Penal Court, it is demanded that 25 public officials stand trial.
Cerrah, Güler, etc.
Provincial Police Chief of Istanbul Celalettin Cerrah, Chief of Intelligence Office of Provincial Security Directorate of Istanbul Ahmet İlhan Güler, Provincial Police Chief of Trabzon Reşat Altay, Chief of Intelligence Office of Provincial Security Directorate of Trabzon Faruk Sarı are among the public officials that are demanded to be on trial.
Many of the 25 public officials who are included in the bill of indictment of Dink case are accused of murder in the first degree, leadership or membership of an armed crime enterprise, destroying the official documents and some of them are accused of murder by omission and some others are accused of official misconduct.
Prosecutor Gökalp Kökçü sent the bill of indictment to İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office for approval. If it would be approved by İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, it would be sent to Istanbul 5th High Penal Court which will start the trials of these public officials if it accepts the bill of indictment.
Turkey’s intelligence office’s (MİT) position
One of the lawyers of Dink family, Hakan Bakırcıoğlu said, in his previous statements, that the officials from Provincial Security Directorate of Istanbul and Governorship of Istanbul haven’t taken protection measures, though they had information about the assassination plan; officials from Provincial Security Directorate of Trabzon and Provincial Gendarmerie Command of Trabzon haven’t conducted operations against the crime organization which was planning Dink’s assassination and the officials from the Directorate of Intelligence haven’t organized these processes of taking protection measures and conducting operations. He added that these officials facilitated the assassination by willfully omitting their responsibilities.
