In the case concerning the murder of Agos newspaper Editor-in-Chief Hrant Dink, former Minister of the Interior and former Governor of İstanbul Muammer Güler testified as a witness. In his testimony, Güler said: “Although the Trabzon Police Department received information on this matter and shared it with the Intelligence Department, why was this information not conveyed to the İstanbul Police? Had this information been shared with the İstanbul Police, the necessary measures would have been taken.”
In the trial held over the murder of Agos newspaper Editor-in-Chief Hrant Dink, Muammer Güler, İstanbul's Governor at the time, was heard as a witness. Güler said: “We know that, in connection with the murder, surveillance and technical interception were carried out by the Trabzon Police Department for 11 months. I became aware of this after the murder. We know that a document arrived and that this document was raw information. Neither the provincial police director nor the provincial intelligence director was aware of this document. Normally, in such matters, the provincial governorship is informed. But we were not aware of it.”
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Although the Trabzon Police Department received information on this matter and shared it with the Directorate of Intelligence, why was this information not forwarded to the İstanbul Police? If this information had been shared with the İstanbul Police, the necessary measures would have been taken
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