Suspect of murder allegedly spoke with police on the day of the shooting
Suspect of murder allegedly spoke with police on the day of the shooting
One of the suspects accused of killing two people after opening fire on a crowd in Muþ last year allegedly spoke with police and gendarmerie forces several times on the date of the murder, according to the daily Radikal.
The latest hearing of the case was held Wednesday in Ankara after the trial was transferred there from the Black Sea province of Samsun due to security reasons.
Wednesday’s hearing was tense, as a gendarmerie soldier carrying an automatic MP-5 rifle present in the courtroom drew reactions from intervening lawyers.
Asked by Kozan to leave, the soldier hit the butt of his rifle on the floor in front of the lawyers as he was exiting the hall. The soldier’s actions were noted in the court minutes.
The judge in the case, Ýbrahim Kozan, said that according to telephone records, defendant Turan Bilen, a village guard and shopkeeper in the eastern province of Muþ, made several calls to security forces personnel around noon.
The court ordered the defendant to remain under arrest despite requests for his release from his lawyers and the prosecutor.
Deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, or BDP, watched the hearing as well.
In December 2009, a group of demonstrators in Muþ’s Bulanýk district were protesting the closure of DTP (Democratic Society Party).
Many shop owners in the district refused to open their stores in protest, but Bilen and his brother, Metin Bilen, kept their shop open. The Bilen brothers allegedly opened fire on members of the crowd who were throwing molotov cocktails, killing two.
At an earlier hearing of the same case in Samsun, Ahmet Türk, the former leader of the disbanded DTP who has been banned from politics, was attacked when he came out of the courthouse. His nose was broken when the assailant struck him. The assailant was released pending trial after his first hearing.
The latest hearing of the case was held Wednesday in Ankara after the trial was transferred there from the Black Sea province of Samsun due to security reasons.
Wednesday’s hearing was tense, as a gendarmerie soldier carrying an automatic MP-5 rifle present in the courtroom drew reactions from intervening lawyers.
Asked by Kozan to leave, the soldier hit the butt of his rifle on the floor in front of the lawyers as he was exiting the hall. The soldier’s actions were noted in the court minutes.
The judge in the case, Ýbrahim Kozan, said that according to telephone records, defendant Turan Bilen, a village guard and shopkeeper in the eastern province of Muþ, made several calls to security forces personnel around noon.
The court ordered the defendant to remain under arrest despite requests for his release from his lawyers and the prosecutor.
Deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, or BDP, watched the hearing as well.
In December 2009, a group of demonstrators in Muþ’s Bulanýk district were protesting the closure of DTP (Democratic Society Party).
Many shop owners in the district refused to open their stores in protest, but Bilen and his brother, Metin Bilen, kept their shop open. The Bilen brothers allegedly opened fire on members of the crowd who were throwing molotov cocktails, killing two.
At an earlier hearing of the same case in Samsun, Ahmet Türk, the former leader of the disbanded DTP who has been banned from politics, was attacked when he came out of the courthouse. His nose was broken when the assailant struck him. The assailant was released pending trial after his first hearing.
