The actions of the then Governor of Tunceli, who abused his office and obscured the evidence in order to protect his son, the perpetrator of the incident, after the disappearance of Gülistan Doku, have shown that the ”Law on Judicial Police”, which has been talked about for years but never taken a step, should be enacted as soon as possible.
Forensic police;
It means an independent law enforcement unit, completely independent from the Ministry of Interior, composed of specialized investigative inspectors in charge of criminal investigations and judicial police and gendarmerie supervisors and officers, reporting to the Public Prosecutor and acting on his orders and instructions. This law enforcement agency will also have its own holding cells where criminal suspects will be kept. Therefore, the Public Prosecutors, who have the monopoly of conducting criminal investigations, will be able to carry out the apprehension of the perpetrators of crimes and the collection of evidence in secrecy without the knowledge and information of other units (the executive branch and the administrative units affiliated to them) and will be able to take necessary action against the suspects.
In the current situation, the police and the gendarmerie, which are in charge of public order services in normal times, carry out judicial police duties after the commission of a crime by carrying out the instructions of the C. Prosecutor. However, since the Police and Gendarmerie are also subordinate to the local administrative authority, especially in publicized investigations, investigations related to political figures or their associates, the evidence obtained and information about the perpetrators (even though the investigation is confidential) are communicated to their superiors and through them to the local administrative authority (Governor/Governor). In some cases, information is provided to these persons before the C. Prosecutor is informed.
This de facto situation can lead to the involvement of people who should be unaware of the investigation, as was the case with the then Governor of Tunceli, and to the disruption of the investigation, the obscuring and loss of evidence by abusing their influence over the officials conducting the investigation.
This grave murder case would have remained an ”unsolved” case and the perpetrators would have escaped accountability for their crimes had it not been for a newly appointed sensitive Chief Public Prosecutor. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate our Chief Public Prosecutor colleague.
It is really grave that people who use public power are trying to cover up a murder by abusing their authority.
A statesman should have handed over such serious criminals to the judiciary, even if they were his own children.
So that person was not worthy of that office, he was not a statesman at all!.
I hope and wish that this incident will be instrumental, that a ”Law on Judicial Police” will be enacted as soon as possible, and that such incidents will never happen again.