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Former Interior Minister: Serap Eser Was Killed By MİT Member

20.01.2015 19:17

Party of Nation and Justice (MİLAD) leader and former Interior Minister İdris Naim Şahin has said in an interview with a daily on Tuesday that a member of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) who infiltrated the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was involved in the death of Serap Eser, who died.

Party of Nation and Justice (MİLAD) leader and former Interior Minister İdris Naim Şahin has said in an interview with a daily on Tuesday that a member of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) who infiltrated the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was involved in the death of Serap Eser, who died in 2009 after a Molotov cocktail attack on a municipal bus in İstanbul.

Speaking during an interview with the Bugün daily on Monday, Şahin said he confirmed when he was interior minister that Eser was killed by a member of MİT. According to Şahin, MİT had a 40-year-long relationship with the PKK and one cannot deny its involvement in the formation of the Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) in 2007. Şahin told the daily that the arrests of police officers in 2014 who fought against terrorism in Turkey and almost dismantled the KCK in 2011 were part of a bargain made in the Oslo meetings between PKK representatives and Turkish government representatives in 2010.

Former Interior Minister Şahin said police officers who were arrested in operations in 2014 were members of police teams that conducted operations against the terrorist PKK and its associate groups, such as the far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) and the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP). According to Şahin, more police officers are to be arrested as part of the agreements made at the Oslo meetings, where Turkish government officials held secret talks with PKK leaders to broker peace under British mediation.

Proposed security package will implement promises given to PKK in Oslo

Speaking about a proposed bill which is a controversial internal security package, Şahin said the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) aims to get rid of 3,200 highly trained police chiefs and officers. The bill, which is being discussed by Parliament's Internal Affairs Commission, gives governors and the interior minister the power to declare a state of emergency. Şahin claims that more than 3,200 police officers including first, second, third and fourth degree police chiefs, will be forcibly retired once the bill is approved by Parliament. Şahin also claimed that this was promised to the PKK at the Oslo meetings.

In September 2011, an almost 50-minute-long voice recording revealed for the first time that secret talks occurred between representatives of the Turkish government and members of the PKK in Oslo, possibly sometime in 2010, after Hakan Fidan was appointed the new MİT undersecretary, replacing Emre Taner. The existence and content of the secret talks were also revealed by anonymous sources, also in September 2011, which temporarily ended the talks. Şahin claimed that the KCK leaked the voice recordings in order to stop police operations against itself in 2011.

As he was the interior minister during the police operations against the KCK in 2011, Şahin claimed that the AK Party government may sue him as they did police officers for fighting against terrorism. A total of 2,146 people were detained and tried during the operations in 2011 against the KCK. A total of 992 people were also arrested for being members of the outlawed KCK.

Former İstanbul Police Department Counterterrorism Unit Chief Yurt Atayün, who was placed under arrest on July 22, 2014 as part of an operation against the police force, carried out many successful operations against the KCK in İstanbul in 2011. Atayün was removed from his post on Feb. 7, 2012 while he was involved in the KCK-MİT investigation.

(Cihan/Today's Zaman)



 
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