Leader of 12 September 1980 coup to testify
Leader of 12 September 1980 coup to testify
Former general and leader of the 12 September 1980 Kenan Evren, is to give testimony today.
Evren is both a former chief of General Staff and seventh president of Turkey.
The Specially Authorized Ankara Deputy Prosecutor's Office, which on Monday summoned two of the architects of the Sept. 12, 1980 coup d'état to testify in an investigation into the atrocities committed during the coup area, has announced that the suspects will testify in their homes.
Deputy Chief Prosecutor Hüseyin Gürþen will visit Gen. Kenan Evren, who led the coup d'état and then served as Turkey's seventh president, and Tahsin Þahinkaya, who was the commander of the Air Force at the time, in their homes to hear their testimonies. A third key general, Nejat Tümer, would have also testified in the investigation but he died in a military hospital the day after he was subpoenaed by the prosecutor, shortly before the prosecutor could give him the papers summoning him to testify.
The council of generals that staged the coup d'état of 1980 was comprised of Evren, Land Forces Commander Nurettin Ersin, Tümer, who was head of the naval Forces, Þahinkaya and Sedat Celasun, the commander of the Gendarmerie Force. Celasun died in 1998 and Ersin died in 2005.
Evren is both a former chief of General Staff and seventh president of Turkey.
The Specially Authorized Ankara Deputy Prosecutor's Office, which on Monday summoned two of the architects of the Sept. 12, 1980 coup d'état to testify in an investigation into the atrocities committed during the coup area, has announced that the suspects will testify in their homes.
Deputy Chief Prosecutor Hüseyin Gürþen will visit Gen. Kenan Evren, who led the coup d'état and then served as Turkey's seventh president, and Tahsin Þahinkaya, who was the commander of the Air Force at the time, in their homes to hear their testimonies. A third key general, Nejat Tümer, would have also testified in the investigation but he died in a military hospital the day after he was subpoenaed by the prosecutor, shortly before the prosecutor could give him the papers summoning him to testify.
The council of generals that staged the coup d'état of 1980 was comprised of Evren, Land Forces Commander Nurettin Ersin, Tümer, who was head of the naval Forces, Þahinkaya and Sedat Celasun, the commander of the Gendarmerie Force. Celasun died in 1998 and Ersin died in 2005.
