The question was this:

“How did Ogün Samast know about the registration numbers of the police officers, who had queried the names of the defendants from the computer after the murder?”

I received the answer from a colleague of mine. These numbers were appearing in the justified decision of the case related with Samast.

This answer doesn’t change the main picture.

The most critical part of Samast’s “confessions” is him saying, “They had planned the murder and committed it” by pointing at Ali Fuat Yılmazer and Ramazan Akyürek, who are known as the Gülen-led group’s police officers.

If the facts like the Gülen-led group based political tension and the judicial process that had plagued the politics in the country are taking into consideration, then, as I had emphasized, all the assumptions around the question “IS Samast telling the truth?” will be pointing at a serious situation.

Let me repeat.

Without a doubt, claims are important; however, they are şin need of being proven.

The duty of a journalist, judge or prosecutor is not producing a verdict from these accusations, but to pursue the evidences and connections. A contrary situation will amount to the Dink case being used as a tool and being covered up in another way. Besides, the range is wide, and the signs related with the murder are too rich and common enough to fit in a “single” team…

For example, won’t that period’s second President of the General Staff, who had called the MIT Deputy Undersecretary following the Sabiha Gökçen news and asked him to warn Dink, and the Deputy Undersecretary be interrogated?

It’s beneficial to walk on the main road.

For example, even if Samast’s claims were not brought forward, the police officers of the Gülen-led group, Ali Fuat Yılmazer and Ramazan Akyürek have many accounts to give related with the Dink assassination.

Let us go back…

At the time of the assassination, Ramazan Akyürek was the Head of the Intelligence Department of the Security General Directorate…

As for Ali Fuat Yılmazer, he was in charge of the C Department, which pursued extreme-right, reactionary and minority activities.

What were these people’s duties?

Let me speak in relation to the Prime Ministry Supervisory Board’s Report.

The regulation of the Department of Intelligence identifies Ramazan Akyürek’s duty and responsibility field as follows:

“(…)gathering information, recording and sorting out all the news, which had been gathered by the center by using any means necessary and which had been inherited from rural units, and combining that information with the background, if there are any, and distributing them accordingly to the confirmed plans and for the ones, who had been found suitable, running the intelligence operations independently or jointly…”

The duty of the C Department Chief, in other words, Ali Fuat Yılmazer’s, had been identified with the same regulation as follows:

“Providing the coordination and tracking of the intelligence operations that are being conducted against the extreme-right, reactionary and minority activities, and conducting the task of feedback pre and post operations” (…) “tracking the incoming information, documents and speculations, and to provide necessary coordination with the rural units on this matter”

This is still mentioned in the cases.

A report, which had been delivered to the Intelligence Department in Ankara from the Trabzon Intelligence Department on February17, 2006, states that an action “which will make a tremendous impact” will be performed against Hrant Dink.

On top of taking place in the Prime Ministry Supervisory Board, there is actually more. In 2003, when Dink had travelled to Sydney, there was a notice, made to the Intelligence Office of the Police, which stated Dink would be assassinated.

What’s more is, upon the request of the Armenian Patriarchate in 2006, there is an attack evaluation report, which had been sent to all the units, that is being done, devoted to the Armenian people and institutions. Besides, there are cases and attempts to lynch me and execute me.

Despite all this, Dink wasn’t included in the “target individuals program”, which Yılmazer is the first responsible. A bodyguard was not being assigned to him. No precautions were being taken for him.

Now let’s read the decision of the Prime Ministry Supervisory Board dated on December 2008:

“Because of not making assessments and providing the coordination between the intelligence departments and tracking the process and giving protective precautions to Hrant Dink, despite the fact that sufficient information was valid after the receipt of the letter of the Trabzon Intelligence Department dated 17.02.2006, (…) And the related protection measures were not being taken, the Chief of the C Department, Ali Fuat YILMAZER had been evaluated as not fulfilling his duties…”

“Ramazan AKYÜREK, who was informed of all the phases of the process from the period he was the Trabzon Provincial Security Directorate to the time he was the Head of the Intelligence Department and had the authority to make necessary evaluations, had been evaluated as disregarding his duties…”

For years, the Dink family had been demanding that these people, and similar ones, be put on trial according to TCK 83 (in other words, an individual responsible for the death outcome, which had occurred because the individual didn’t actualize their certain executive behaviors that they are liable to) and the reasons for this omission to be revealed.

The situations, which warrant clamping down, are standing right next to us.

The will and law doesn’t operate here.

The problem is that first, these need to be made operable.