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24-Jan-2019 9:37 |
Turkish court seeks extradition of exiled journalist Arslan with fabricated murder document
Arslan is among dozens of journalists in exile accused of having links to the faith-based Gülen movement, which autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his government accuse of masterminding a major corruption investigation in Turkey that became public in December 2013 and implicated the inner circle of the ruling AKP government and then-Prime Minister Erdoğan as well as a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Read the full article 31 October 2017: Police confirm FETÖ link in murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant DinkResponding to a request from the court trying defendants over the 2007 murder of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, police acknowledged that 18 defendants in the case used ByLock. ByLock is an encrypted messaging app used by members of the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) and authorities believe it was created or at least modified by the group to cover up their activities. Dink, the editor-in-chief of the Armenian Agos weekly, was assassinated outside his Istanbul office on Jan. 19, 2007, in a murder initially attributed to nationalists disturbed by his outspokenness on the Armenian genocide, a thorny issue for Turkey, and especially nationalists. Ogün Samast, a teenager, was captured and sentenced to 23 years in prison for the daylight murder, but further inquiry found several public and police officials linked to FETÖ tried to cover up the case............................. ....Anadolu Agency (AA) reported that among the ByLock users in the case is Adem Yavuz Arslan, a fugitive FETÖ member who wrote a book about the murder, fugitive FETÖ-linked prosecutor Zekeriya Öz and former police Chiefs Metin Canbay and Yakup Kurtaran. Ercan Gün, a journalist tried in the case, also used ByLock, according to the police. Read the full article 22 March 2017 27 February 2014: |
Police confirm FETÖ link in murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink |
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