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being buried in KlZIltepe, Mardin on Wed.
nesday.
Checkpoints were set up atfive road ent.
rances to the Turkish capital on Sunday tc
prevent the entry of groups that may intend
to attend the funeral.
DEP Chainnan Ya~ar Kaya said after the
incident that this was "a seizure of the body"
that stripped them of their natural right to
show theIr respects to a murdered colleague.
Earlier, officials said DEP was free to arran.
ge a 'ceremony, even at the Grand Nation~1
Assembly, since Sincar was a parliamentan.
Assassin of Kurdish deputy caught?
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA-Turkish government bodies were in a
confusion on Tuesday whether the suspected killer
of Mehmet Sincar, the Mardin MP for the pro-Kurdish
Democracy Party (DEP) has been caught.
Police officIais revealed late Monday that the
suspected killer of Sincar and of a local DEP official
Metin Ozdernir was arrested in the southeastern
town of Batman. A high ranking police source was
g.uoted .in the Turkis~ press assaying th~t Aydin
'-i".;I.:1,: \".as élil'esledIn a house t:iat contaIned two
, pistols which had allegedly been used in the mUfder
of Sincar in Batman last Saturday. The source
has also said that the suspect has been identified by
eyewitnesses.
Mehmet Golhan, .the minister of state who is also
in charge ~f the prime minister's "crisis desk," said
that the suspect, and 20 others who are reportedly
related to tile murder, were "close" to the Islamic
fundamentali~t Kurdish organization Hezbo\1a!'.
But Unal Erkan the Regional Governor based ID
Diy'rbakir said in BatOlan on Tuesday that there
an. But oarty officials announced that becau.
se of the attitude taken by Parliament toward
them, they would not use this right.
They also said Sincar's body would be
~rapped in the DEP flag instead of a Turkish
fl3g. ,
On Tuesday, 15 DEP deputies traveled to
Hacettepe hospital where they intended to
meet WIth Director Ta~er. After wa,iting in
his room for some time, they managed to
establish telephone contact. Ta~er dId not
cOIllefo~.the m~ting, but told the deputies
that!fis instructIons were to keep the body
were "25-26 suspects" under detention
and revealed the names of two "triggers"
that had escaped as Orhan Ilkin
and Veysi Kavan. Erkan delivered
photograph~ of the f~gi!ives to pr~ss.
He also saId that wIth the ongOIng
operation in Batman a big blow would
be dealt to the Hezbollah.
, Mehmet Agar, the General Director
of Security indirectly accused those
who commented on the assassinations,
adding that the case would be solved
completely if only people would kéep
quiet for another two daY!J:
"They spoiled the whole thing",
Agar saId.
After examining the bullets fired in
the attack, the police had stated earlier
that the guns mayalso have been used
in previous murders and woundings.
4 other people were wounded in the