Drugs in car of Turkish senator
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) NICE, March 8. A Turkish senator is being questioned by police in Nice after police found his car stuffed with 3221 b of morphine base during a customs search at Menton, on the FrenchItalian border.
The Senator was identified by Turkish police in Ankara as 58-year-old Kudret Bayhan, a member of the extreme Right-wing National Movement Party who has held a Parliamentary seat since 1961. Senator Bayhan, a lawyer and father of five, told
police that he knew nothing about the drugs -found in the car on Sunday. He said that he had hired the vehicle to drive from Istanbul to Lyons and back to buy a wedding dress for a daughter, who was to be married soon. Police said that the senator did, in fact, have with him the catalogue of a leading Lyons couture house. The driver of the car, Mr Ibrahim Ikier, aged 47, an Istanbul taxi-driver, also was being questioned further by French police today.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32861, 9 March 1972, Page 15
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