An assassination attempt was made last night against the father of a well-known businessman in the occupied territories, Bulut Akadzian, who had served a prison sentence in the previous years for a beating case.
67-year-old Mehmet Akatzian, a former "policeman", was shot by unknown or unidentified persons in the garden of his house in Pellapais. According to the T/C media, he was shot five times in the legs and is being treated in a private hospital in Kyrenia.
Immediately after the incident, Bulut Akadjian in a video posted on social media pointed to the Ulutzian family with whom he is at odds as the perpetrator, while he blamed the Turkish "ambassador" to the occupied territories and the "prosecutor general" for their involvement.
In the video, Bulut Akadjian claimed that the Turkish Ulujian family has been threatening them for a long time and demands that they pay them £1 million as "blood compensation". Saying that he had appealed to the "police" on the matter, Mr. Akadzian said that his appeal was blocked by certain "political and legal centers" in the occupied territories.
According to Mr. Akadzian, during the period when he was in prison on the charge of beating, he was pressured through the "prosecutor's office" to withdraw the complaint he had filed with the "police" and the lawsuit he had filed against the individuals in question. He claimed that he was promised that they would help him with his cases if he withdrew the complaints and the lawsuit, which he eventually did."
He delivered the threatening messages to the "police", Mr. Atajian said he reportedly met with Turkey's "ambassador" to the occupied territories, Ali Murat Basteri, who told him that "these are my compatriots. "The ambassador told me that I made a mistake because I reported them to the police and that he would be interested in this matter himself. I ask our ambassador, the bigwigs of our state: do I need to give these people the money they want?"
According to the Press and Information Office, Turkey's "embassy" denied that it mediated in any matter as claimed by Bulut Akadzian and called his allegations untrue and slanderous.
In a statement the "general prosecutor's office" said that Bulut Akadzian withdrew the allegations against Serhat, Melik and Levent Ulujian voluntarily in his own testimony in May 2020 at the Kyrenia "provincial court" and a month later, in the presence of his lawyer, he also withdrew the case file from the said "court".
Meanwhile, regarding the attempted assassination of Mehmet Akadzian, the TC leader, Ersin Tatar requested and had a meeting today with the head of the "police", Ahmet Soyalan. Tatar asked and was briefed on this case as well as on the case of mistreatment and abuse of elderly people at the nursing home in the occupied Sygrias.
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