ICC Note:
A retired General named Hursit Tolon was arrested in January for his suspected involvement in the Malatya murders of three Christians in 2007. The believers were tortured and murdered at the Zirve Publishing House. The General has again been summoned to court on other charges in relation to the “suspicious death of Turkey’s eighth president, Turgut Özal.”
4/1/2013 Turkey (Hürriyet Daily News)—An Ankara court summoned retired Gen. Hurşit Tolon – who is already under arrest as part of the alleged coup plot Ergenekon – to court as part of an investigation into the suspicious death of Turkey’s eighth president, Turgut Özal.
Tolon was transferred from Istanbul to Ankara this morning and is currently delivering his testimony to the prosecutor Kemal Çetin.
A court in Malatya had also issued an arrest warrant on Jan. 18 for retired Gen. Hurşit Tolon over the torture and murder of three Christians in the eastern province’s Zirve Publishing House in 2007.
A report by Turkey’s Forensic Medicine Institute (ATK) had not found any evidence that Özal was poisoned, following a recent autopsy carried out after Turkey’s State Audit Board (DDK) ruled in a report last June that Özal’s death was “suspicious” and should be investigated.
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