A mysterious excavation has been going on for 256 days under a shanty house in Mersin Tarsus, a southern province in Turkey, local media reports. The excavation has been supervised by the special operations forces, waiting with long barrelled weapons on top of the house. The entrance and exit of the street have been closed by armoured vehicles, creating a panicking atmosphere for the dwellers. Nobody is let around the house of excavation.
CHP deputy Aytuğ Atıcı told the local media that even he was not let in the house of excavation. Atıcı stated that some concrete information would be given to the public in around 10 days.
Local media reports that 20 people work 24 hours in turns in the house. The excavation is going on in secret. Some road subsidence have occurred in the neighbourhood due to the excavation work.
MURDER OF POLICE OFFICER INVESTIGATING HISTORICAL ARTEFACT SMUGGLING
The excavation is told be related to the murder of Mithat Erdal, the police officer killed investigating historical artefact smuggling in 2012. The perpetrator Hüseyin Yasak confessed killing Mithat Erdal back then and had been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment.
However, Sibel Erdal, the wife of murdered police officer, appealed to higher authorities, arguing that a proper investigation had been precluded by the authorities and that her husband had been killed by an organized crime ring. It is being told that the excavations started following this appeal.
