"Beat & Release": Ankara Businessman Fathered a Child at 82...Maybe

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 22 January 2023)

        A father at a great-grandfather age...or not.

Ankara businessman Yunus Ensari died last year at age 103.  Now his 

grave has been opened for a second time in connection with a paternity 

case and DNA samples taken from his remains.

According to the case file, in 1986 Ensari met Iranian Fariba Esin Ensari,

who had come to Ankara, and they married by means of an "imam nikâh"

(religious but not official) wedding ceremony.  A child name Y.E. was 

(evidently) born from this union at a time when Ensari was 82 years old. (!) 

Y.E., who is now a university student, had his lawyers Tuncay Akı and 

Alparslan Aydoğan file a paternity suit on his behalf in Ankara family

court.  Based on this suit, Ensari's grave in Gölbaşı, Ankara, was opened

on 21 October 2022 and a DNA sample was taken from his remains.  

The results showed no DNA link between Y.E. and Ensari. 

However (!), Y.E.'s lawyers filed an objection, asserting that "four or five 

leg bone parts should have been taken for the DNA report for a conclusive 

report but only one was taken during the 'fethi kabir işlemi' (exhumation)."

The court accepted the objection.  Ensari's grave was opened once

again on Friday and DNA samples taken from his remains. 

          This is only the second.  Third time's a charm.