MURDER IN ANATOLIA - European Stability Initiative - ESI

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ZEKI DAG knows Emre Gunaydin from the newspaper.
HAMIT OZPOLAT runs the Tempo radio and the Frekans newspaper in
Adiyaman and knows Bulent Aral Varol.
SALIH DEMIR knows Emre from the Birlik newspaper.
RUHI ABAT
Abat is an academic at Malatya‟s Inonu University. By education he is a
theologian. Around the time of the murder he was working in the strategic studies
research centre on missionary activities in Malatya.
MEHMET ULGER
Ulger was provincial Gendarmerie commander for Malatya from January 2006 to
July 2008. An anonymous letters claimed that he instigated the Zirve murders.
17 21 May 2009 ERKAN YILMAZ knows Emre Gunaydin from the afternoon school.
MEHMET COLAK
From 2003 to 2007 Colak worked in the intelligence unit of the Malatya
Gendarmerie. As of 2007 he is based in Diyarbakir.
18 19 Jun 2009
19 17 Jul 2009
20 21 Aug 2009 BURCU POLAT
Burcu Polat knows Emre Gunaydin from the sports centre where she went with
her father Ruhi Polat.
21 16 Oct 2009 MURAT GOKTURK
He worked in the Malatya Gendarmerie from 2004 until June 2008. He was later
moved to Igdir. He knows Huseyin Yelki, from whom he received a bible in
Arabic.
22 13 Nov 2009
23 25 Dec 2009
24 19 Feb 2010
25 15 April 2010 BURAK DOGAN knows Varol Bulent Aral, who he met in August 2006. Aral
told him that something had to be done about missionary activities and that those
who would do something would become rich.
26 14 May 2010
27 25 Jun 2010
28 20 Aug 2010
29 15 Oct 2010 ORHAN KARTAL shared a prison cell with Aral in 2008. Kartal claimed that
Aral told him that Aral was involved with the planning of the Zirve murders.
ERHAN OZEN
Ozen claimed to have worked for JITEM between 1997 and 2005. He claimed
that the murders of Hrant Dink and of the missionaries in Malatya were planned
by JITEM.
30 3 Dec 2010 No witnesses were heard.
31 20 Jan 2011 The trial will continue in Malatya ...
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