Document of A Lie on Train Disaster

The cruise order of mechanics shows the speeds which they will employ at each site. The written instruction given to them by the Railways General Directorate, says that the train must pass from the Mekece district, where the accident took place, at 19.42, at a speed of 130 km.

Ismail Gurses, the attorney of mechanics Recep Sonmez and Fikret Karabulut, who were detained after the accident that, his clients had told me that they were going at a speed of 105-110 km during the accident.

After the disaster that killed 36 people General Director Karaman his deputy Kemal Ergulec and Undersecretary of Transport Minister Muammer Turker had made persistent statements one after another saying that the train was moving at a speed of regular trains.

In fact, a passenger, Abdulkadir Cagrifuler said that the train’s speed was 132 km , 15 minutes before the accident.