Word: resit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 of Turkey's general staff, who had been with Merdjan when the murder weapon was bought...
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