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ISTANBUL COURT COMMENCES TRIAL OVER ARMENIAN WOMEN'S ASSAULT
10:31 ~U 05.11.13
An Istanbul court has opened the hearings against the man suspected
of violent assaults against ethnic Armenian women.
According to the Turkish-Armenian publication Agos, the suspect, Murad
Nazaryan, on Monday added new facts to his earlier evidence, saying
that he had been blackmailed into assaulting and beating the victims.
He told the court that three men had pushed him to the crime,
threatening otherwise to cause harm to his family members.
He said that the unknown man, who carried arms, had taken him to the
house of Maritsa Kucuk and started stabbing the woman.
"When they stabbed her first, I ran away. They had cut my finger before
that to spread the blood on the material evidence. If I see those
people's pictures, I will recognize them," Nazaryan told the court.
He further complained about pressures by the police.
"I told them that because I am afraid and have nothing more to do. So,
I recounted everything the way as it had been. I don't feel safe in
prison. I cannot sleep and have to use pills," said the suspect.
Four elderly Armenian women were subjected to violence in Istanbul in
November-December last year. The 85-year-old Maritsa Kucuk, who was
one of the victims, later died. Nazaryan was detained as a suspect
months later.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/11/05/muradyan-kuchuk/
From: Baghdasarian
10:31 ~U 05.11.13
An Istanbul court has opened the hearings against the man suspected
of violent assaults against ethnic Armenian women.
According to the Turkish-Armenian publication Agos, the suspect, Murad
Nazaryan, on Monday added new facts to his earlier evidence, saying
that he had been blackmailed into assaulting and beating the victims.
He told the court that three men had pushed him to the crime,
threatening otherwise to cause harm to his family members.
He said that the unknown man, who carried arms, had taken him to the
house of Maritsa Kucuk and started stabbing the woman.
"When they stabbed her first, I ran away. They had cut my finger before
that to spread the blood on the material evidence. If I see those
people's pictures, I will recognize them," Nazaryan told the court.
He further complained about pressures by the police.
"I told them that because I am afraid and have nothing more to do. So,
I recounted everything the way as it had been. I don't feel safe in
prison. I cannot sleep and have to use pills," said the suspect.
Four elderly Armenian women were subjected to violence in Istanbul in
November-December last year. The 85-year-old Maritsa Kucuk, who was
one of the victims, later died. Nazaryan was detained as a suspect
months later.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/11/05/muradyan-kuchuk/
From: Baghdasarian