“It is without doubt that the signature under the plan belongs to Dursun Çiçek and that the plan was written by him,” the prosecutors who drafted the indictment, which was accepted on Thursday by the İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court, said. All reports confirming the authenticity of the document were also included in the indictment.
One of these reports was issued by the Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK), which on Oct. 19, 2009 authenticated Çiçek’s signature on the plot. This report was followed by another, released by the Security General Directorate’s Criminal Investigation Unit and dated Nov. 13, 2009. The department compared Col. Çiçek’s signatures on 21 different documents with the one that appears on the suspected plot. It concluded that the signature on the plot resembles those on the other documents. “An investigation of 21 different documents has led to the conclusion that the signature on the document in question is the product of Col. Çiçek’s hand,” read the document.
The third report is also by the ATK, which investigated the document twice. This report, dated Feb. 4, 2010, also confirmed that the document was written by the colonel. The last report included in the indictment was prepared by the Gendarmerie General Command’s Criminal Investigation Unit, which completed and forwarded its report on the plot to the General Staff on Feb. 23. The gendarmerie had handwriting experts evaluate the signature, verifying that the direction, speed and pressure of the strokes in the writing as well as the points at which the pen was lifted and applied to the page were all consistent with Çiçek’s writing. The gendarmerie noted in its report that it had used graphological, physical and optical examination techniques in authenticating the colonel’s signature.
