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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...
When the court of appeals which reviewed the case ordered a new trial, Orbay's father, Chief of Staff Kiazim Orbay, resigned. Ankara's public prosecutor also resigned. At the new trial the eyewitnesses were finally allowed to appear, and unanimously identified Hashmet Orbay as the murderer. Merdjan admitted that he had been persuaded to take the blame, on the promise that highly placed friends of his friend Orbay would get him off lightly. Sole witness in Orbay's defense was shapely, blonde Musherref Ishikman, his "fiancee," who testified that Hashmet had been visiting...
...Curious, Ankara's Yeni Sabah inquired further, learned that Madame Hassanov had been caught reading a forbidden book. The book: Russian Expatriate Victor Kravchenko's terrifying story of life in the Soviet Union, I Chose Freedom...
...Ankara last week, it was reported that the Soviet Embassy's second secretary, Kariagdy Hassanov, had been peremptorily summoned to Moscow. But his wife chose to stay in Turkey, and prudently went into hiding...