New development in the Hablemitoğlu case... 'The defendants of this case are not in this file'

Ankara University Faculty Member Assoc. Dr. The trial of 10 defendants regarding the assassination of Necip Hablemitoğlu in front of his house in Ankara on December 18, 2002 continued yesterday at Ankara 32nd High Criminal Court.

While the undetained defendants Mehmet Narin, Levent Göktaş, Fikret Emek, Aydın Köstem and Ahmet Tarkan Mumcuoğlu were present in the hearing room, Nuri Gökhan Bozkır, detained in this case, and Enver Altaylı, detained in another case, attended the hearing via SEGBİS. Ersan Barkın, the lawyer of the Hablemitoğlu family, and the lawyers of the defendant were also present in the hall.

Avukar Barkın; He drew attention to the investigation carried out regarding the footage of the conference Hablemitoğlu gave in Eskişehir, 4 days before his murder, and the camera footage of Migros, where he went to shop on the day he was murdered. Barkın requested to wait for the investigation initiated to determine the identities of the people identified in the images to be concluded.

Defendant Levent Göktaş said; He presented a 9-page defense. In his defense, Göktaş stated that he included the certificate of the course he gave in Kazakhstan at the time of the murder and the photographs taken in Kazakhstan of Ahmet Tarkan Mumcuoğlu, who is being tried on the charge of "hitman".

Other defendants also demanded that judicial control measures be lifted and the ongoing investigation into Hablemitoğlu's Eskişehir and Migros images be waited for to be completed.

After the defendants, the statements of the defendant's lawyers were made. Göktaş's representative, lawyer Ali Soykan, said, "My client has been under judicial control since 2022 due to the slander prepared by the previous prosecutor Zafer Ergün. During this period, he could not visit his wife's grave and had to close his law office. As you know, Ergün left the prosecutor's office and started his career as a lawyer. As a twist of fate, my client Göktaş and Ergün are mutual defenders in a case at the Adalar Courthouse; however, they will not be able to sit on the same row. "Remove the judicial control of my client so that he can face Ergün," he said.

Defending that the witnesses who came to the case did not tell the truth, Soykan said, "Hasan Atilla Uğur and Refik Ali Uçarcı did not tell the truth. Hasan Atilla Uğur questioned Uçarcı within the scope of the Ergenekon file one day after this murder, but this was hidden. This was not questioned. We think this should be investigated."

Mumcuoğlu's lawyer, Mehmet Eren Turan, said, "Here we saw the harm of a prosecutor being both the file and prosecution prosecutor. It is clear that there are suspects following Hablemitoğlu in the ongoing investigation. This evidence was clarified in 2019, but the prosecutor did not feel the need to identify these people. These images were not discussed neither in the investigation nor in the prosecution. At this stage, the defendants of this case are not in this file. There is no reason for the continuation of judicial control."