Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on December 12 that he still has doubts about whether latePresident Turgut Özal’s died of natural causes
, Hurriyet Daily News reports.
“In my opinion, the report didn’t eliminate the doubts. At least, my doubts continue,” Bozdağ told reporters at Parliament.
His remarks came when he was asked about media reports that an autopsy showed that the exhumed body of Özal, who led the country out of military rule in the 1980s, contained poison but the cause of death was unclear.
He had the very same doubts the day Özal died in 1993, Bozdağ said, adding that the Forensic Medicine Institute had not eliminated the doubts but rather raised more questions.
