Like a cobweb

Prosecutor prepared the indictment and requested death penalty for Erol Evcil for murdering his business partner Nesim Malki


       The indictment requesting death penalty for Erol Evcil, which was
       prepared by Istanbul State Security Court (DGM) Prosecutor Aykut Cengiz
       Engin, includes noticing relations in the triangle among business world -
       mafia - politics. The indictment underlined the debts of Evcil reaching
       almost a half quadrillions of liras, who got hundred millions of dollars
       through his dark relations. It said Evcil set up a "threatening force" by
       taking police officers to his side. According to the indictment Nesim Malki,
       who had the supremacy in thread production market, took refuge behind Erol
       Evcil, who became more powerful day after day in Bursa, as Alaattin Cakici
       threatened him. This was how Evcil met Cakici. They then competed in certain
       auctions together, including Turkbank and Sumerbank. The chain of dark
       relations resulted in Malki's murder were reflected in the indictment as
       follows:

He set a private "threatening force"

       Erol Evcil threatened usurers to clear his debts as he fall into
       trouble in repayment. After 1991 and 1992 Evcil gathered people like Sukru
       Elverdi, Burhanettin Turkes, Mehmet Sumbul, Muharrem Kutay, Ilhan Ozturk,
       Metin Kaplan and Fazil Istan, who are known to be Turkish idealists and to
       join armed attacks before 1980 coup and established an affective force in
       Bursa. At the mean time he also convinced Assistant to Bursa Security Chief
       Yusuf Ilhan to retire and strengthened his force by employing the police
       officers, who resigned through the agency of Ilhan as his bodyguards.

Old enemy became a partner

       Nesim Malki used to have the freedom to keep the prices of threads
       produced as he was the only customer and the seller of the manufactures of
       the companies owned by Cavit Caglar and Ali Osman Sonmez. However as Evcil
       also entered the market, the prices got out of the control of Malki. In the
       end Malki meets Evcil and offers him to be partners, but this partnership
     Âhas spread to other areas as well.

First meeting with Cakici

       This partnership led Evcil to become indebted to Malki in astronomical
       amounts. As he was threatened by Alaattin Cakici and Burhanettin Turkes,
       Malki asked help from Evcil. Thus Evcil met Cakici and this led a close
       cooperation between the two. Evcil and Cakici competed together in some
       important auctions, threatened many businessmen, politicans, banker and
       public workers thus got benefits both for themselves and their men.
       As the debt to Malki reached to hundreds of trillions, Evcil saw no other
       way but murdering Malki. Meeting Sukru Elverdi in September of Evcil ordered
       him to kill Malki in 1995. He also wanted him to take the case that Malki
       always carries and bring it to him.
       Erol Evcil also claimed in his testimony that the trigger Burhanettin Turkes
       who murdered Nesim Malki was previously hired by Malki himself to shoot his
       lawyer.