18 Kasım 2023 Cumartesi

"Beat & Release": Where is "Gülistan"? - No Longer on the Map

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 18 November 2023)














                          Fell off the edge of the world.

In Tunceli, Munzur University student Gülistan Doku, enrolled in the 
child development department as a second-year student, left her dorm on
5 January 2020 and was not heard from again.  The next day her family
filed a missing-person report about her with police, who determined that
Gülistan hanım's cellphone signal was last detected on the Sarı Saltuk
viaduct at the Uzunçayır Dam Lake.  A camera image from a camera
confirmed that she was inside the vehicle crossing the viaduct at that 
moment. 

But despite the work of 542 personnel and data from 88 vehicles,
38 robots, 10 ROVs (underwater cameras), 6 drones, 4 sonar devices
and 3 sniffer dogs, no trace of Gülistan hanım was found and the case
was closed. 

However (!), police determined that the last person she spoke with 
before her disappearance was her boyfriend, Zeinal A. who was born
in Russia (!), and who was taken into custody nearly two years later in 
Antalya's Alanya district.  After his 4-hour interrogation, Zeinal A. 
was released on judicial supervision and forbidden to leave Turkey.  

A case was brought against Zeinal A.'s father, policeman (!) E.Y., 
because he posted information about Gülistan hanım that should have 
remained secret on social media so he was fired from the police and
jailed for 2.5 years.   















                  In search of Gülistan's coordinates.

Last week, Gülistan hanım's older sister Aygül Doku spoke with 
Tunceli Governor Bülent Tekbıyıkoğlu and Police Chief Hakan 
Duman and as a result, the case was reopened.   The family's lawyer
Ali Çimen stated that two days before her disappearance someone 
tried to forcibly put her into a white car.  On the night of 4 January,
prime suspect Zeinal A.'s father E.Y. was on duty at the police station 
and came to the scene of the incident.  It was determined that Zeinal
A. was the person who tried to force Gülistan hanın into the car, which
belonged to Zeinal A. and E.Y.

On the first day of the disappearance investigation in 2020, E.Y. left
Tunceli for Elazığ in the white car.  Lawyer Ali Çimen asked police
to check all possible means in connection with the car's movements
that day to Elazığ along a mountain road, but so far the requests have 
not been responded to.




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