Turkish Intelligence's role in Paris massacre in court documents

İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation on the Turkish Intelligence Agency (MİT) official whose name appears in the documents and voice recordings on Paris massacre.

Important documents and voice recordings had emerged on the role of Turkey and the Turkish Intelligence Agency (MİT) in the massacre of PKK founding member Sakine Cansız, KNK Paris Representative Fidan Doğan and Youth Movement Member Leyla Şaylemez on 9 January 2013 in Paris. These documents and voice recordings had shown that Ömer Güney, who massacred the three revolutionary women and is currently under arrest, is an MİT agent and had received the order of the massacre through documents signed by Haluk Özcan.

The AKP government had denounced these claims, but İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation on the Turkish Intelligence Agency (MİT) official whose name appears in the documents and voice recordings on Paris massacre. The office is investigating MİT agent Haluk Özcan’s role in ‘the murder of an individual in Turkey.’ The office demanded the MİT to respond the claims that ‘Haluk Özcan is in correspondence with the parallel state.’

Documents and voice recordings had revealed that Ömer Güney is an MİT agent and received the order of the massacre through documents signed by Haluk Özcan. MİT had announced that an internal and administrative investigation would be carried out regarding the issue.

Cumhuriyet newspaper reached the details of the investigation launched by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. Accordingly, Chief Public Prosecutor Hasan Yılmaz from the Terror and Organized Crime Investigation Bureau wrote on 4 April 2016 that individual F.C. claimed that former Kocaeli MİT Office employee Haluk Özcan had illegally wiretapped F.C.’s phone after F.C. denounced Özcan’s role in the murder of an individual in Turkey, and that Özcan is in collaboration with the parallel state.