The officer who was accused of having that note in his hand denied the allegation of being part of a plan to assassinate Arınç and claimed that the note did not belong to him and that the police planted the note in his pocket to deepen the investigation.I thought that the Turkish media would normally laugh at the “explanation” that the officer came up with. However, as the days pass, it appears that even the mainstream media have started questioning whether the note was put in the military officer’s pocket by the police as part of a conspiracy against the officer. Yesterday Can Dündar of Millyet wrote a piece underlining his doubt about the note.
Dündar states: “The note became the crucial part of the investigation. Either the officer who had the note in his pocket, or the police who it was claimed put the note in his pocket are lying. One side is telling a big lie. This detail will tell us the truth behind the plot. I am looking forward to the answer to the following question: How did that note end up being in the pocket of that officer?”
With the knowledge I obtained from sources close to the investigation teams, I would like to provide the answer for the Turkish media in general, and Can Dündar in particular, as to how the note ended up being in the officer’s pocket. The answer lies in a crucial detail. The note is handwritten. That means it is very easy to prove whether or not the police planted the note. The security cameras in front of Bülent Arınç’s home show who was at the scene. The prosecutor could ask the police officers, and the detained military officers, to provide a sample of their handwriting and send them to the forensic investigation laboratories and prove whether the note was written by any of the police officers at the scene. If it turns out that neither the police officers nor the military officers who were there wrote the note, then the prosecutors could ask other police officers working in the unit and the military officers at the military compound to provide samples of their handwriting for forensic investigation. And I am sure the investigators have already sent that note for forensic investigation to show whether it belongs to the police of the military officers.
Given that even the most foolish police officer would know that the easiest evidence to prove is a handwritten note, it would, therefore, be a ridiculous thing for a police officer to plant a handwritten note in the pocket of a military officer. Would anyone believe that the handwritten address was still written by a police officer?
Then the question is wouldn’t the military officer have the most basic forensic knowledge that a handwritten note could easily be proven by the experts as to whom that note belongs. Yes, one can expect that they would know this detail. Perhaps that is exactly why the arrested military officer claims that the note does not belong to him. More importantly it explains why the officer went to that address with the address of Bülent Arınç in his hand. They went there as part of a routine duty, whatever that duty may be. Because it was a daily routine of the unit that the military officers work for, someone in that unit wrote that note and the two officers took it with them to go there. Then the officers were arrested by the police who seized the note when the military officer was trying to destroy it.
I hope this explains everything for the skeptical media in general and Can Dündar in particular.
