Court acquits suspect for former president's ‘assasination’
by AA
ANKARANov 26, 2014 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by AA
Nov 26, 2014 12:00 am
A Turkish criminal court yesterday acquitted retired Brigadier General Levent Ersöz of charges of having killed Turkey's eighth president, Turgut Özal.
Ankara's fourth High Criminal Court said that there was a lack of positive proof for the charges.
Ersöz's lawyer cited a secret witness who had said that Özal's wife Semra had poisoned the president, and pleaded that Semra Özal should be tried on the charges.
Özal died of a suspicious heart attack on April 17, 1993 while still in office.
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