Outstanding politician Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu can be remembered on Friday, his thirteenth loss of life anniversary. He died in a stunning helicopter crash, which additionally claimed the lifetime of the founding father of the Higher Unity Occasion (BBP) and 5 different folks accompanying him. Three trials have been carried out over allegations of negligence throughout search and rescue efforts following the crash whereas one other trial remains to be underway.
Late politician’s household had lengthy voiced suspicions over the “accident” and had urged investigations into attainable sabotage that brought on the crash. At present, a court docket is trying into allegations that members of the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) may need been concerned in makes an attempt to hinder investigations into the incident within the southern province of Kahramanmaraş.
Yazıcıoğlu, his entourage and a journalist had been touring from one marketing campaign cease to a different forward of elections when their helicopter crashed in a mountainous space. A number of investigations ended up with non-prosecution however Yazıcıoğlu’s household pressed on with their authorized battle over attainable negligence which will have brought on the crash and search efforts in its aftermath.
The newest investigation is being carried out by prosecutors in Kahramanmaraş. In 2020, a court docket accepted an indictment towards 17 defendants, together with two former troopers accused of ties to FETÖ. The indictment had accused defendants of obstructing the sooner investigations and forging proof, allegedly to hide the terrorist group’s attainable hyperlinks to the crash.
Yazıcıoğlu, a nationalist politician, was a staunch critic of FETÖ and the terrorist group’s chief Fetullah Gülen was quoted as saying that Yazıcıoğlu was “eliminated with a divine blow” in a speech 5 days after the politician’s loss of life.
A trial primarily based on the indictment is merged with one other trial over the elimination of a monitoring system from the helicopter following the crash. A brand new listening to is scheduled for Could 23. In earlier trials, a former police chief who was convicted of FETÖ membership was convicted of abuse of obligation for spreading false details about the state of Yazıcıoğlu within the fast aftermath of the crash, with the aim of distracting search and rescue efforts. Different former public officers, who labored as public directors and army commanders in Kahramanmaraş on the time of the crash, had been additionally sentenced for abuse of obligation attributable to their negligence over the crash.
Household’s lawyer Kemal Yavuz instructed Anadolu Company (AA) on Thursday that investigations are nonetheless underway over suspicions that the crash might have been brought on by “different planes” within the space and different suspicious elements which may have contributed to the crash.
