Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems rather remarkable that the U.S., so jealous in guarding its press freedom, at home and so militant in advocating its extension at international conferences, should be willing to let the murder of George Polk fade into the limbo of unsolved mysteries. Newsmen, some of whom must continue to do their jobs in distant and risky areas, take a very different view...
...Three committees of U.S. newsmen are trying to solve the murder. None is fully convinced, as the U.S. State Department seems to be, that Greek Communists killed Polk. One committee, headed by Columnist Walter Lippmann and Washington Post Publisher Eugene Meyer, hopes to raise $50,000 to keep the investigation going...
...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...
...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 of Turkey's general staff, who had been with Merdjan when the murder weapon was bought, was dragged into the case by a slip up. The court sentenced him to one year as an accomplice. Cried Merdjan, when his sentence was read: "I was double-crossed...
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...