The chief suspect in the Malatya murders, Emre Günaydın, could be well enough to make a statement in two days’ time, said Sezai Yılmaz, dean of the school of medicine at İnönü University.
Günaydın had jumped from a second floor window to avoid the police and seriously injured himself.
Yılmaz said, “Emre’s health condition is getting better,” and that the chances of him waking up are also good. “We will detach him from the respirator today or in two days at the latest. There was air in his lungs; they are now OK. His tomography is also clean. And there was also non-fatal bleeding in certain parts of his brain, which has also disappeared.”
Malatya police department threatened
Four days before the Malatya murders, the police department of Malatya reportedly received a threatening letter from the Turkish Vengeance Brigades (TİT). The letter said that the brigades would commit acts of sabotage against the Malatya police department, the 2nd Army Command, the Malatya Municipality and the courthouse.
One of the 11 suspects taken into custody in relation to the murders, Muammer Özdemir, is the son of Vahap Özdemir, the mayor of Ayvalı. Mayor Özdemir said that his son had gone to Istanbul four months ago to work, but added, “However, as I found out just yesterday evening, he went to Malatya two-and-a-half months ago to help his brother move and stayed there without informing me.”
The suspects in the murders at the Zirve Publishing House in Malatya were brought back to the crime scene after midnight on Saturday under tight security. The four prime suspects were made to reconstruct the murders. Driven in an armored vehicle to the scene, they told police in detail how they had killed the three victims.
Suspects, H.Ç., S.G., A.Y. and C.Ö., were made to wear police vests for security reasons. During the reconstruction, there were skirmishes between members of the media and the police.
Eleven suspects arrested in relation to Malatya murders appear in court
The 11 suspects who were taken into custody in relation to the killing of three people in a publishing house in the southeastern Anatolian town of Malatya have been transferred to court.
Following their interrogations by police, the 11 suspects, who were arrested on charges of killing Tilman Ekkehard Geske, a German citizen, Necati Aydın and Uğur Yüksel by slitting their throats, were transferred to the court house. The suspects will reportedly be tried in the 3rd High Criminal Court and the hearings will be closed to the media. While the suspects were being taken to the court house, all roads leading up to the court house were closed to traffic by police.
Police detained a woman in İstanbul on Saturday, bring to 12 the number of people believed to be connected to the Malatya killings. The woman who was detained Saturday was the girlfriend of one of the 11 suspects already in custody, Malatya Gov. Halil Daşöz said.
Church services for murdered missionary Necati Aydın
Messages of unity and spiritual togetherness were given at the funeral in İzmir on Saturday for the Protestant missionary Necati Aydın, who was killed in last week’s violent attacks on a group of Christians who were publishing Bibles at a Malatya publishing house. The funeral for Aydın took place at the İzmir Protestant Church, and was attended by Aydın’s wife, Şemsa Aydın, and their two children, son Elisha Güneş (7), and daughter Ester Bahar (6). Others of Aydın’s family members were not present however. An estimated 500 people, some Turkish, some foreign, came from Ankara, İstanbul, and Antalya for the Saturday service. İzmir Deputy Governor Sait Topoğlu as well as Buca Provincial Governor Mehmet Taşdöğen were also in attendance.
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