The assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was fatally shot outside his office by an ultranationalist teenager, was the work of the secret gendarmerie intelligence unit JITEM, whose existence has been denied by officials, according to a document included in the third indictment into Ergenekon, a clandestine gang accused of plotting to overthrow the government.
According to the document, seized from the computer of Turhan Зцmez, a former deputy from the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and a suspect at large in the Ergenekon trial, a man called Yusuf Ziyad, who is said to be a Kurd living in the Kurdish-controlled region of northern Iraq, says JЭTEM; retired Gen. Veli Kьзьk, who is currently under arrest as part of the Ergenekon investigation; and the National Police Department were behind the Dink murder.
It is also claimed in the document that Kьзьk and another retired general, H.K., were behind a number of unsolved murders and terrorist activities in northern Iraq. On the 13th page of the document, Ergenekon suspects including Зцmez, retired Gen. Hurюit Tolon, former National Police Department Special Operations Unit Deputy Chairman Эbrahim Юahin, retired Gen. Юener Eruygur, retired Capt. Muzaffer Tekin, lawyer Kemal Kerinзsiz, former Organized Crime Unit Director Adil Serdar Saзan, Workers’ Party (IP) Chairman Doрu Perinзek and journalist Yalзэn Kьзьk are mentioned under the title of “Those leading these formations.”
In the indictment, a conversation between Emin Gьrses, an associate professor who is currently under arrest as part of the Ergenekon investigation and another Ergenekon suspect, Lt. Col. Mustafa Dцnmez, also gives clues about the Dink murder. In the phone recording, Gьrses tells Dцnmez, “The murder of Hrant Dink has been a good kind of warning to those people.”
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