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...case involved a blonde, two deaths and "a certain foreign power." For the third time in 2½ years, an Ankara court last week tried to hand down an acceptable verdict in the famous Arcan murder. By now the court was fairly sure it knew who had committed the crime. The question remained...
...Friend Indeed. Dr. Neset Arcan was a well-known Ankara physician, consultant to many embassies, including the Russian. Late one afternoon in October 1945, a young man walked into Arcan's consulting room, pumped seven shots into the doctor and got away-not without being seen. Five eyewitnesses agreed that the youth was slight, fair and high-cheek-boned. Nonetheless, when heavyset, dark, round-faced Resit Merdjan confessed to the crime, the court barreled the case through, carefully refrained from calling the eyewitnesses, and sentenced Merdjan to 25 years. Slight, fair, high-cheekboned Hashmet Orbay, son of the chief...
Perfectly clear to every pundit in Ankara's buzzing Karpic restaurant was what they swore was the real story. On an emergency call to one of Ankara's major embassies just before the murder, Dr. Arcan saw Orbay there in conference with the embassy's military attaché. Fearing that the doctor would tell what he had seen, Orbay killed him. Commented one Turkish official privately: "The real reason for this murder will only be made public if or when diplomatic relations between Turkey and a certain great neighboring power are broken...
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