Turkish authorities turned down a Russian government request to run a lie detector test on a key suspect whom Turkey claimed to be complicit in the assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov in 2016, casting further suspicion on the credibility of the Turkish investigation and murder case.
The rejection by Turkey came despite the fact that the suspect, Mustafa Timur Özkan, who repeatedly said he had nothing to do with the murder, volunteered to undergo the Russian government lie detector test, eager to prove his innocence. The revelations were made in Özkan’s defense statement, a copy of which was obtained by Nordic Monitor, which was delivered to the court on January 8, 2019.
“The Russians want to hook you up to a lie detector, but I’m not giving you to them,” said public prosecutor Adem Akıncı when interrogating Özkan, a 64-year-old retired architect and avid traveler. “I told him I wouldn’t hesitate to take a lie detector test and that if it was OK with him, I’d volunteer to get hooked up to it.” Özkan recalled of his conversation with the prosecutor.
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