ISTANBUL, Turkey, — Turkey’s former Prime Minister Torgut Ozal who broke the taboo in 1993 admitting that there were Kurds in Turkey, not the “mountainous Turks”, and tried to solve the Kurdish issue peacefully, had been poisoned by four different venomous substances, latest finding reveals.
According to Sharqulawsat news agency, the ATK medical institution which was consigned with the task of investigating about the causes of Ozal’s death, found four different poisons in his body including cadmium, polonium, americium, and DDT.
Rumours in relation to Torgut Ozal have been going on for the last two decades. Pointing to Ozal death, the Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan had in a statement published in 2009 said that he had been killed.
“To prevent the solution of Kurdish issue, because Ozal was not pursuing the American strategy, he was killed. Europe did not want the solution of the Kurdish issue either. Ozal did not die. He was killed,” said Ocalan.
In 2001 the then interior minister Fikri Daglar had made suspicious statement. He said that after Ozal death a sample of his blood was taken for examination. But the container keeping his blood was dropped and broken.
Pointing to Ozal death, the BDP jailed deputy Hetip Dicle said; “I was member of parliament in 1993. The God-blessed Torgut Ozal had sent us to respectful Ocalan to initiate a ceasefire. One day after our trip to Lebanon [where Ocalan had resided by then], Ozal was killed.”
Torgut Ozal was Kurd by origin and during his incumbency he undertook series of reforms promoting economic boost. But after taking measures to solve the Kurdish issue peacefully, he was encountered by the military circles in Turkey who denied the very existence of the Kurds in Turkey. Confrontation with the military circles led to suspicious death of Ozal which according to the latest finding was caused by four types of poisonous substances.