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| Chechen leader in Ankara 'killed for $1 million' |
| 2015-03-15 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] A man who is suspected of involvement in the killing of the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria's honorary consul in Ankara in 2013 told friends that his group committed the crime for $1 million, a witness has told the court. Medet Ünlu, 53, was killed by armed assailants at the honorary consulate in Ankara on May 22, 2013. Turkish citizen Murat Aluc was placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! as the main suspect on Oct. 11, 2014. He confessed to the crime, claiming that pro-Russian Chechens in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... "promised him a life in Ukraine" for the liquidation. Ö.S., another detained suspect who is accused of hiding Aluc from law enforcement for months, was released by the court pending trial, despite the prosecutor's request that he be arrested. A witness told the prosecutor in Ankara on Jan. 28 that Aluc was wearing a different hat every time he left Ö.S's house during his time as a runaway following the murder, daily Hurriyet has learned. "We killed Medet Ünlu for $1 million. We were planning to kill five more people from this neighborhood, but the balloon burst," the witness quoted Ö.S. as angrily yelling at a local cafe, according to the testimony. Goldsmith in Istanbul probed Aluc told the prosecutor that he received $40,000 from a goldsmith in Istanbul's Beyazit neighborhood for the killing. The Prosecutor's Office in Istanbul is probing the claim, while the investigation in Ankara is continuing. Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... the family of Ünlu has filed a new complaint after the latest testimonies, demanding the released suspects in the case to be arrested. The family claims that Aluc was hired by a Russian citizen who returned to Russia two days after the murder. Ünlu was against Russian military operations in Chechnya and had been working as an activist to stop Chechens from going to fight in Syria as jihadists. His wife had claimed in a petition in July that Ünlu had been under the surveillance of Turkish intelligence when he was killed and "suffered oppression" from some circles, particularly pointing to Ramzan Kadirov, the pro-Russian leader of Chechnya who is accused of gross human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... violations in the territory. In a separate case, five Chechens who were killed in Istanbul between 2009 and 2011 were murdered in the name of Russia's intelligence agency, according to a Feb. indictment by Bakirköy Public Prosecutor Ahmet Demirhuyuk in Istanbul. A Chechen activist died in Istanbul after being hospitalized with suspected food poisoning on March 2, with some of his relatives and Turkish activists accusing Russia's intelligence agency of poisoning him. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Murat Aluc, probably looking thru his closet for an umbrella and felt the solid comfort and dignity of his old Kemmalist Clue Bat. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-03-15 18:19 |
| #1 The "Russian Way"--More direct and final than the subtle and more refined Alinsky "Chicago Way." |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-03-15 08:06 |