Ex-president’s death is ‘suspicious’: Turkey

ANKARA — The 1993 death of Turkey’s then-President Turgut Ozal is suspicious and should be investigated, a report by the presidential palace said Wednesday. The report said there has been no satisfactory investigation into allegations by some family members and lawmakers that Ozal, whose pro-Western policies helped modernize Turkey and gave the US-led coalition a strategic ally during the Arabian Gulf War, might have been poisoned. Doctors at the time said Ozal, who underwent triple bypass surgery in 1987, died of heart failure on April 17, 1993. The report said the burial of the president without an autopsy has also fueled concerns over his death. — AP