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    TURKEY EXHUMES EX-PRESIDENT FOR TOXICOLOGY TESTING

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    October 2, 2012 - 14:07 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - Work started early on Tuesday, Oct 2 to open late
    President Turgut Ozal's grave, as part of a belated investigation into
    the cause of the 1993 death of the president, Today's Zaman reports.

    A criminal investigation team, a bomb disposal team, police officers
    and officials from the Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) are standing
    ready at the gravesite. Heavy machinery was deployed to the area
    early in the morning to carry out the work at the site, which has
    been surrounded by steel walls so that it cannot be seen from outside.

    The case was opened earlier this year after a number of witnesses spoke
    of unusual circumstances on the day of the death of the then-president,
    who was reported to have suffered from a heart attack.

    The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office recently issued a warrant
    to exhume the remains of the president for toxicology testing.

    The prosecutor's office is also investigating a number of unusual
    circumstances that came to light following Ozal's supposed heart
    attack. Certain facts - such as that on the day of his death his
    in-house doctor and nurse were both out, that staff were not able to
    start the ambulance due to a mechanical problem, the lack of first aid
    equipment at the presidential residence and other similar issues --
    have led to suspicions surrounding the death of the former president.

    In addition, the office is focused on inconsistencies between the
    statements of Ozal's doctor and his family members regarding the
    lack of an autopsy. Ozal's doctor, Cengiz Aslan, claimed that the
    family of the former president did not request an autopsy, but the
    Ozal family has denied this claim.

    Ozal, the eighth president of the Turkish Republic, died of heart
    failure in April 1993 in an Ankara hospital at the age of 65 and
    while in office.

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