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    ZIRVE PROSECUTOR ASKS TESTIMONY OF WITNESS MENTIONED IN BOOK

    Today's Zaman
    Feb 22 2011
    Turkey

    A specially authorized prosecutor overseeing the case into the
    2007 Zirve publishing house murders has demanded the court listen
    to a secret witness that a recently published book says previously
    testified to 襤stanbul prosecutors.

    The witness is mentioned in "Bi Ermeni Var: Dink Operasyonunun
    癬^ifreleri" (There's this Armenian: The Codes of the Dink Operation)
    authored by journalist Adem Yavuz Arslan, who seeks to shed light
    on some of the suspicious aspects of the murder of Turkish-Armenian
    journalist Hrant Dink, who was shot dead by a nationalist teenager in
    broad daylight in front of his office four years ago. The book also
    has a section on the Zirve murders, which the author says were part
    of the same plot to kill Dink.

    The Anatolia news agency reported yesterday that the Malatya specially
    authorized prosecutor sent a statement to the 襤stanbul Chief Public
    Prosecutor's Office and demanded all related documents be sent to
    Malatya. He also asked the Malatya 3rd High Criminal Court, which is
    currently hearing the Zirve case, to hear the secret witness.

    In the book, Arslan quotes the secret witness who reportedly testified
    to 襤stanbul prosecutors in late 2010, saying the gendarmerie organized
    the Zirve murders.

    In April 2007, two Turkish nationals, Necati Ayd覺n and Ugur Yuksel,
    and a German national, Tilman Ekkehart Geske, were tied to chairs,
    tortured and repeatedly stabbed at the Zirve Publishing House in the
    southeastern Anatolian city of Malatya before their throats were slit
    as police arrived on the scene. The publishing house they worked for
    printed Bibles and Christian literature.

    Suspects Abuzer Y覺ld覺r覺m, Cuma Ozdemir, Salih Gurler and Hamit Ceker
    were apprehended at the scene and immediately taken into custody,
    while Emre Gunayd覺n jumped from a third-story window in an attempt
    to escape from police and was taken into custody after being treated
    for injuries. A total of nine men have been charged in connection
    with the murders.




    From: A. Papazian
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