The way they were arrested seems like a revenge operation. I don't like these personalities a bit, and they are at least discursive participants of a nationalist-secularist fear propaganda machine. However, I believe they are not directly involved in my criminal activities. A contrary finding would really shock me. In the mean time, no significant actors in this political game believe there is a "purely" legal angle in recent cases. AKP people had implied that they are attacked because of the Ergenekon case, and now the friends of these detained claim the reason is all political: They were all harsh critics of anti-AKP...

 

AFP: Arrests in Turkey over plot to kill Nobel laureate Pamuk: report

ANKARA (AFP) — A Turkish nationalist party leader, a veteran journalist and an academic have been arrested over an alleged plan to kill author Orhan Pamuk, the country's first Nobel laureate, media reported Friday.

A prominent Turkish columnist taken into custody

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TURKISH SECURITY OFFICIALS ADMIT COVER-UP IN DINK MURDER CASE - Eurasia Daily Monitor

By Gareth Jenkins

Friday, March 21, 2008

On March 20, two members of the Turkish Gendarmerie admitted receiving detailed intelligence regarding a plot to assassinate Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and then, after Dink’s murder, trying to cover up their knowledge by lying to investigators."