20 years after one of the blackest unresolved murders in Turkey’s history, the averred gunma suspected of murdering Kurdish author Musa Anter is arrested by police force in the southeastern province of Şırnak.
The man suspected of murdering Kurdish author Musa Anter was arrested by police in the southeastern province of Şırnak on June 29, 20 years after the murder happened.
Anter was killed in an armed assault in 1992. The prime suspect, Hamit Yıldırım, was snapped recently for the first time in Şırnak. Yıldırım, who hadn’t altered his personal identity, was taken to Diyarbakır for interrogatory after being taken into detention.
Anter’s murder event, which would have been deteriorated owing to the statute of restrictions in 3 months, will be broadened for ten more years owing to the new development.
One of the blackest unresolved murders in Turkey’s history, Anter’s killing occurred in the southeastern province Diyarbakır in 1992. Another author, Orhan Miroğlu, was as well badly injured in the attack.
Miroğlu, who survived the armed assault in spite of dangerous wounds, was as well able to describe the suspect from pics taken twenty years ago. Inspecting the old and new photographs of the suspect, Miroğlu told the person in the old photos appeared very much like the hit man.
“I saw him for a short time, but the image that remained in my mind of the bad memory of that night is very close to that photograph. The person who killed Musa Anter and who shot me is very probably to be this person,” he stated.
There was a condemnable charge on the suspect, but he hadn’t been arrested for the last twenty years, Diyarbakır Bar head Mehmet Emin Aktar told. “The case shouldn’t only engage the gunman, but ought to be inquired in general,” he told. “Who killed Musa Anter and why? This should be investigated.”
