APn 10/05 1103 Ozal Assailant ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- A Turkish court has indicted a former

APn 10/05 1103 Ozal Assailant

   ANKARA,  Turkey  (AP) -- A Turkish court has indicted a former
teacher in the attempted assassination  of  Premier  Turgut  Ozal
four months ago, the Anatolia News Agency reported.

   Kartal  Demirag  was  indicted  Tuesday  by the State Security
Court, which charged him with attempted premeditated  murder  for
shooting  at  Ozal  while  the premier was delivering a speech to
members of his governing Motherland Party.

   The indictment, which said  Demirag  held  neo-fascist  views,
also  charged  him with carrying an unlicensed weapon and using a
false identity, according to the news agency.

   One of the two shots Demirag fired hit the microphone in front
of the premier and the other struck  Ozal's  thumb.    Bodyguards
returned fire, wounding 20 other people and the gunman.

   Demirag  was  sentenced  last  year  to 10 years in prison for
knifing a man in a coffeehouse brawl.  He escaped  from  jail  in
January and remained in hiding until the assassination attempt.

   No trial date has been set.

   Turkish  newspapers reported earlier that Demirag was a member
of the youth organization of  the  defunct  neo-fascist  National
Movement Party.

   The   party's   youth   branch,  known  as  the  Gray  Wolves,
participated in terrorism that claimed  about  5,000  lives  from
1978 to 1980 and that led to a military takeover in 1980.

   The  indictment said Demirag had a grudge against Ozal for not
declaring an  amnesty  for  right-wing  activists  after  he  was
elected premier, Anatolia said.

   Mehmet  Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who shot and wounded Pope
John Paul II in Rome in 1981, also allegedly belong to  the  Gray
Wolves.