title: Sami Hoştan
text: # Sami Hoştan
  
  Sami Hoştan (1 July 1947 – 11 May 2015), also known as Arnavut Sami Sami the Albanian, was a Turkish suspect in the Ergenekon trials. He was a former partner of casino king Ömer Lütfü Topal; he was acquitted of Topal's murder in 2001. He was a friend of Abdullah Çatlı's; he was one of the first to arrive to collect Çatlı's body from the scene of the 1996 Susurluk car crash. He was arrested as part of the Ergenekon investigation in January 2008.
  
  