Suicide or murder?
Prominent Jewish Turkish businessman Hayati Kamhi was found dead on Monday morning in his home in Istanbul. Curiously, Daily Hurriyet describes Kamhi's death as allegedly suicide (Hat Tip: Will). But something about this death smells rotten. I've emphasized the points below. Sixty-two year old Kamhi reportedly shot himself in the head and was critically injured. His wife and two daughters, aged six and twelve, were at home during the incident, according to reports.A few lawyerly questions:
Ambulances were not able to arrive on time because of the wrong address given to emergency services by family members, and Kamhi died in his house.
When paramedics arrived he was already dead, eyewitnesses said. Kamhi’s body has been sent to the Forensic Medicine Institute for an autopsy.
Some officials from the Israeli Consulate went to Kamhi’s house after the incident, and the police have also launched an investigation.
Kamhi is the son of Jak Kamhi, a prominent figure in Turkey’s Jewish community. The owner of Proteksan Turquoise Inc. and Çlik Yacht Inc., Jak Kamhi was attacked with a rocket flame thrower in 1993 but survived.
The late Hayati Kamhi had filed a criminal complaint against another businessman, Nizamettin Aytemiz, for threats in 2008. Aytemiz was then sent to jail and released in the same year. Aytemiz was murdered in March 2012, but his murderers have not been found, daily Hürriyet reported.
Kamhi had left Turkey in 1980 because of Turkey’s troubled political term during those years. He returned Turkey 22 years later, in 2002.
1. If he shot himself in the head, it seems likely that he would have died instantly.
2. Family members gave a wrong address for their own house with the head of the household laying critically wounded in the house? I don't buy that for a minute.
3. If they really think he committed suicide, why the autopsy?
4. Is the Israeli consulate also investigating? Why?
5. Has anyone checked the whereabouts of Aytemiz's family? Did Aytemiz have any other enemies? Did Kamhi? What was the complaint about?
Hmmm.
Labels: Turkey
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:25 AM
1 Comments:
This is an old policy of this uncouth nation known as Milli iktisat(national economy). During the zenith Ottoman Empire most the non-muslims dominated trade, commerce and made up most of the bourgeois. Racist Turkists came up with successive plans to use force, pogroms, legal obstacles, murder and even genocide to wrest economic control into "Sunni Muslim Turkish" hands.
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