ANKARA
A senior police officer shared the address and other personal information of Sinan Ateş, former leader of the ultra-nationalist group Gray Wolves, with the mastermind before his assassination, the indictment has revealed.
The incident occurred on December 30, 2022, when Ateş, a faculty member at Hacettepe University, was fatally shot with five bullets by gunman Eray Özyağcı as he left his office in the capital Ankara’s Çukurambar neighborhood.
In the 145-page indictment, it was stated that the three suspected shooters acted jointly and carried out the act, while the other two suspects were the instigators.
All suspects are responsible for the crime of “deliberate intentional murder” in the murder, the indictment states.
Using security resources, Mustafa Ensar Aykal, who was serving as a high-ranking police officer in the capital Ankara on the date of the incident, gave personal information such as Ateş’s address, phone number and location to Tolgahan Demirbaş, one of the suspected instigators of the murder.
The instigator, in turn, shared these with the people who were to carry out the attack, the document states.
The prosecutor asked for a tougher life sentence for five defendants in a case involving 22 people.
Source: Hurriyet Daily News
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