by Prof. Arpali’s attorney had been rejected. Prof. Askin, who discovered Prof. Arpali’s body, was hospitalized after suffering a heart attack. Two days after Prof. Arpali’s suicide, the office of the Van District Attorney filed the case against Prof. Askin, while the case against Prof. Arpali was dropped.
As one Turkish columnist noted, a recent law allows a maximum of four days of detention without trial, even for the worst murderers, drug smugglers, rapists, and terrorists. “Enver Arpali was kept in detention for over four months with no progress made in his case… so he killed himself.”
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