TURKEY: Diplomacy

The case involved a blonde, two deaths and "a certain foreign power." For the third time in 2½ years, an Ankara court last week tried to hand down an acceptable verdict in the famous Arcan murder. By now the court was fairly sure it knew who had committed the crime. The question remained, why?

A Friend Indeed. Dr. Neset Arcan was a well-known Ankara physician, consultant to many embassies, including the Russian. Late one afternoon in October 1945, a young man walked into Arcan's consulting room, pumped seven shots into the doctor and...

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