Hotel collapse suspects freed ‘because they hoped it would not’

The six suspects who were spared jail in the case of the collapse of the Isias hotel in the Turkish city of Adiyaman, which killed 72 people, including 35 Cypriots, were freed as they had “hoped” that the hotel would not collapse.

Adiyaman’s first high criminal court released the reasoning of its verdict, which it had handed down last month, on Wednesday, and offered a list of justifications for the decision not to send the six suspects to prison.

It pointed out that the Adiyaman...