A Kurdish man, suspected of having ties to the Hizbollah, was brutally tortured and killed by police officers, linked with the U.S.-based Gülen-led shadowy network, said a veteran intelligence officer in his recently-published book.
The former head of Police Intelligence Agency, Sabri Uzun, said in his 326-page book that Cezvet Soysal, a father of six and an ex-worker of the Turkish Petroleum Corporation, or TPAO, was killed in the province of Batman by two police officers, who were disguised as members of the intelligence service of the Turkish gendarmerie, or JITEM, after being abducted outside his home on his way to the office.
“They killed him when they broke his neck in the Beşiri district, where he had been held under torture for 30 days. He was buried in a remote part of Beşiri,” Uzun said in his book, İN, which is mostly based on privileged information provided by an informant, who is formerly linked to Gülen’s illicit network.
In the page-turner, Uzun tells of his confrontations with followers of the U.S.-based cleric Gülen, currently wanted in Turkey for forming and running an armed terror group in the parallel state probe.
The work is an in-depth look at notorious operations by Gülen’s illicit network’s supporters, nested within the state, from the sex tape blackmail that plotted to topple the former opposition leader Deniz Baykal to the murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink.
The book also said that the police officers, involved in the killing of the suspected Hezbollah member, have been removed from duty in the wake of the Dec. 17 massive corruption and graft investigation.
PARALLEL THREAT TO FAMILY OF ‘UNSOLVED MURDER’ VICTIM
The family members of the victim never heard from him over 16 years ever since the day he had been abducted in a Toros car. His son tried to trace his father for several times but could not have any response about his father's fate until Turkey's Yenişafak called him to inform of his father's death on Wednesday.
The son of Cezvet Soysal said that the police threatened to kill him if he insisted to track the whereabouts of his father, speaking to Yenişafak in a phone interview.
“A police warned me not to press this issue. Otherwise, I would have shared the same fate as my father,” said Mücahit Soysal, who was just two at the time when his father disappeared.
"The police officer shouted at me saying not to visit the police department once again. Otherwise, I would get into big trouble.”
GULEN’S FOLLOWERS WORK THEIR MAGIC ‘ILLEGALLY’
The confidential informant, a one-time Glen follower, confirmed all the facts and the claims, which have been brought to daylight in the book.
“The officers, embedded within the police, have been involved in several illegal activities to prove their high performance in the terror fight. This fact was clarified in the wake of the Dec. 17 investigation,” said the informant.
On Dec. 17, surprise police raids targeted allies of the then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his inner circle, sending shockwaves through his cabinet, months before the March 30 elections in which the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AK Party took the lead.
RAMPANT TORTURE AND ARBITRARY DETENTION
Among the Kurds, taken by Gülen’s supporters on suspicion of being linked to Hezbollah, is Kazım Uysal who was tortured in the basement of the Batman police department in 1999’s June.
“They handcuffed my hands behind me. They covered my face with a ski mask. They trampled on my body they had covered with a cardboard,” said Uysal in his phone interview with Yenişafak.
Uysal was stopped on his way home from the Batman state hospital by police officers driving a civilian car. The police pushed him into the car and took him for interrogation at the police department, where he was tortured for 24 days with his hands bound behind his back and his eyes blindfolded.
“Then, they took me into a garbage-dumping field where a police officer officially detained me. The court sentenced me six years in prison,” said Uysal.
Uysal added that the officers, who kidnapped him, called each other “yes my major”, “my commander”, pretending to be a member of JITEM.
