türkçe links to original Turkish article
(Hürriyet Newspaper, 26 November 2019)
The Assassins click here for a recent TNT report on this
subject.
Kyrgyzstan protests click here for background related to
the killing reported in the above linked article.
"Plug me into something"
On 14 November former Iranian intelligence agent Mesut Mevlevi (32)
was gunned down in the middle of the street in Şişli, Istanbul. Police
have determined that a few hours before the murder, the person who
was with Mevlevi when he was shot had entered a shopping center
with the assailant right behind him. Police are now searching for both
the killer and the individual who was with Mevlevi when he died.
At 2150 hours on 14 November, Mevlevi came from the Kağıthane
neighborhood to Ecza Street, where he met up with an individual.
As the two walked, the assailant, wearing a hat, eyeglasses and a
dark jacket, came up to them and shot Mevlevi 12 times. Passer-by
N.Ü. was wounded by a ricochetting bullet. The shooter fled and
the individual with Mevlevi waited for a time next to Mevlevi before
fleeing himself.
Reviewing video from the area, police saw that prior to the incident
the murderer had entered a shopping center in the Levent
neighborhood and the person he followed closely into the shopping
center was the individual who was with Mevlevi when he was shot.
Consequently, police think that Mevlevi's 'friend' was in league with
the murderer.
Friends (no longer) in high places.
Hürriyet spoke with Iranian journalist Behnam Gholipour, who lives
outside Iran. Gholipour said that Mevlevi had established a hacker
group that was trying to expose corruption in Iran. Another Iranian
journalist stated that Mevlevi asked him to help gather documents
concerning a former senior Revolutionary Guard director named
Morteza Rezaei, whom Mevlevi had characterized as the 'economic
mafia' in Iran.
Mevlevi fled Iran in 2018 and, although he was living in Turkey,
he tried to create the impression on social media that he was living
in Spain. Mevlevi left Iran because of problems affecting military
and intelligence projects in Iran and because some of his friends
had been arrested. Another Iranian journalist, who declined to be
named, said that Mevlevi may have been killed as the consequence
of a disagreement between two Iranian intelligence organizations.
Mevlevi is known for having exposed documents about Iranian
officials via a 'telegram channel' named 'Black Box'. On Mevlevi's
social media page there are pictures of him with Hashimi Rafsanjani,
Muhammed Hatemi and Mahmud Ahmedinejad. Two days before
he died, Mevlevi wrote on his Twitter account that that "I will scratch
out the roots of the corrupt mafia commanders. Just pray that they
don't kill me before I get it done." (!)
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