Güngören Explosions: Solved Or Not Solved?

Minister of Interior Beşir Atalay announced that the case of the Güngören explosions in Istanbul, which resulted in 17 deaths, was solved completely and those arrested were the bombers. However, Hüseyin Çalışçı, lawyer of Hüseyin Türeli, one of those who were arrested for the bombings, said their clients had nothing to do with the explosions, but were arrested for “harboring and helping the organization.”

On August 2, Minister of Interior had declared that all the suspects behind the explosions were caught and the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) was responsible for the both explosions.

“Those arrested are not the perpetrators of Güngören”

Planning to file a lawsuit against the newspapers who presented his client and the other suspects as “PKK bombers”, Çalışçı criticized the minister by stating that these people were not arrested as the perpetrators of the Güngören explosions.

The lawyer said his client had been working in a textile firm in Istanbul for the last seven years. He added that they were planning to confute the reports published in the newspapers Hürriyet, Milliyet, Sabah and Star.

Eight of the ten suspects are in Metris Prison

The eight of the ten suspects were sent to Istanbul’s Beşiktaş High Criminal Court on August 2 and are accused with “being members in an organization” and “harboring and helping an organization.”

Suspects Hüseyin Türeli, Abdurrahman Oral, Ziya Kıraç, Şerafettin Kara, Aydın Çağlar, Cevat Aydın, Mehmet Salih Yanak and Nusret Tebiş were sent to Metris Prison in Istanbul.

The PKK, which the authorities blame for the explosions, had not assumed the responsibility for the incident. (EÖ/TB)