Murat Nazaryan accused for attacking Armenian women in Istanbul makes new discoveries

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 4, ARMENPRESS. At the course of the new session of Murat Nazaryan’s trial who is accused for attacking four Armenian women in Samatya District of Istanbul, the suspect announced that three unknown people impelled him to crime. This information is given by Armenpress citing the Turkish Haberler.com.

Nazayan stated that three unknown people whose physical data he cannot remember threatened to kill him and his relatives, after which they took him to the house of the suffered. Then, they stabbed Armenian Maritsa Küçük themselves. “They had weapons. After they had stabbed Maritsa Küçük once, I escaped. Previously they had cut my finger and dripped my blood on a document. If I see the picture of those people, I will recognize them. As I was under psychological pressure in the police department, I was not able to tell everything,” Nazaryan said. He added that he does not feel safe in prison and cannot even sleep. ”

Murat Nazaryan, arrested for murdering 84-year old ethnic-Armenian Maritsa Küçük and attacking other old Armenian women in Samatya District of Istanbul, was not acting alone. There was a female accomplice involved in the attacks as well. As reports “Armenpress” citing Istanbul-based Agos periodical, the law enforcement authorities engaged in the investigation stated this and noted that another woman’s DNA was found in Maritsa Küçük’s house. One of the women, 87-year-old Turfanda Aşık, lost an eye, while the other woman was robbed and severely injured. On December 28, 2012, Maritsa Küçük was stabbed seven times before her throat was slit at her home in Samatya. Two other attacks were carried out in the same month against elderly Armenian women in the Samatya and Bakırköy districts as well. Most recently, 83-year-old Sultan Akyar was attacked in Samatya, after which she underwent eye surgery. The blood on an envelope found in Maritsa Küçük’s bag belongs to Murat Nazaryan. Murat Nazaryan detained twice before for theft, previously worked at tea houses as a cleaner but had been unemployed for some time. The Istanbul police arrested Murat Nazaryan on March 4, who, according to the police, attacked the old Armenian women with the purpose of robbery. The announcement made by the Istanbul police says that the 40-year-old accused was formerly as well condemned for alike crimes. Earlier the Turkish mass media informed that the criminal did not try to rob the victims. Many public figures expressed their opinion that the crimes were carried out on ethnic ground, in the framework of the actions of the Turkish authorities to frighten the Armenians towards the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.