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Former Council of State head says attack could be work of an ‘organization'
The term “organization” is widely used in Turkey to refer to illegal formations or gangs.
Alan, however, expressed disbelief that a member of Turkey's higher judiciary could have been involved in the operation to destroy the camera records.
A recent report drafted by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) suggested that security camera records at the Council of State building where a senior judge was killed in an armed attack in 2006 had been deliberately destroyed after the assault. The report also said the council was able to retrieve some of the footage from the camera records. The non-retrievable parts belonged to the day of and the day before the assault.
Alparslan Arslan, a lawyer, was found guilty of the shooting. He said he attacked the court in protest of an anti-headscarf ruling it had made. But the indictment contains evidence that he had connections to Ergenekon and that his family received large sums of money from unidentified sources after the shooting.
Hayrettin Küçüksoy, a retired Council of State judge, said an administrative investigation should have been launched on the day of the attack. “Who helped the hit man enter the Council of State building? The council should have examined claims that the hard disks of the security cameras at the building stopped working one day before the shooting. Was the hit man freely able to enter the building?” he asked.
According to the TÜBİTAK report, the hard disks storing security camera footage from the Council of State building were not out of order, as previously claimed. The report also said some of the footage from the cameras was renamed and later deleted by unidentified individuals.
Küçüksoy also said a new investigation by the Council of State into the bloody attack would not prove fruitful.
Claims emerged in mid-2009 that retired military officers may have played a significant role in tampering with evidence regarding the Council of State attack. At the time of the shooting the court building was guarded by the OYAK Security Company, which was made up of retired military officers who had served in the Special Forces Command. According to claims, the security camera records at the building may have been destroyed by the company's staff.
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