When Wife Fails Driving Test 4th Time, Hubby Breaks Tester's Nose, in Adana

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 30 September 2024)

Thought he'd finally get out of picking up the kids 

and mother-in-law.

In Adana, housewife Esma V. took her driver's license test for 

the fourth time (!) but because she didn't turn on her blinker

when turning at the Mustafa Kemal Paşa Boulevard intersection

in Yüreğir district, she failed again.  

Following the test car from behind was Esma hanım's husband

Murat V., who became enraged when his wife was denied her

license once more.  Murat bey took out his anger on test driver

Baddal A. and broke his nose with a punch. 

Baddal bey was taken to a hospital for treatment and he filed

a police complaint against Murat bey, who was then taken into

custody and brought to the Akıncılar police station. 

Baddal bey earning that big paycheck...

Divorce on Hold as Husband Tries to Leverage Wife's Need for Womb-Eggs Removal Operation for Better Settlement, in Ankara

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 30 September 2024)

Held hostage as hubby tries to bargain her health.

Burçak Topaç (48), who lives in Ankara, married hairdresser

Muharrem Topaç (52) through a matchmaker in 1997.  The

couple had two children together but Burçak hanım complained

of physical, psychological and economic (!) abuse by Muharrem

bey so she filed for divorce. 

A court granted the divorce but Muharrem bey protested, saying

he wanted to remain married, so the case is now in on appeals

court.  However, Burçak hanım became ill and doctors told her

she needed to have her womb and eggs removed in an operation.

But since the couple's divorce is still up in the air, Burçak hanım

must obtain Muharrem bey's permission for such an operation. (!)

In response, Muharrem bey is trying to leverage Burçak hanım's

urgent health situation to get a divorce settlement to his liking

by withholding permission. 

Muharrem bey begs to differ...for a better divorce deal.

"Beat & Release": Self-admitted "Crazy" Midnight Bike Rider Stabs Trumpeter to Death, in Antalya

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 29 September 2024)

Strangers in the night - one much stranger than 

the other.

In Muratpaşa district of Antalya , Polat Dereli (45) went out for

a bicycle ride at 1 o'clock in the morning (!),  promptly got into

an argument with valet Osman Dere (36)  at a cafeteria in the

Çağlayan neighborhood and Dereli stabbed Dere.  

As police and medics arrived on the scene, Dereli fled on his

bike and promptly got into an argument 15 minutes later with

Deniz Akten (38) on the same street.  Dereli stabbed Akten, who

played the trumpet in the Antalya Municipal Band (!),  20 times,

killing him. 

As police were examining the scene of Akten's murder, they saw

that Dereli was there watching them.  He and his knife were 

nabbed.  It turned out that Dereli has a police record of nine

previous crimes.  He denied that he had stabbed Dere and

Akten, saying only that "I'm crazy" (!).  True - 3 years ago 

Dereli was a patient at a mental hospital in Istanbul. 

"Fleece & Release": Diplomas of the Dead Sold and Rewritten by "Graduates", in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 28 September 2024)

                 Don't forget to add "with high honors".

Diplomas of dead graduates (!) of  Yıldız Technical University 

(YTÜ) in Istanbul have been sold and rewritten by erasing the 

deceased's information to become the buyer's YTÜ "diploma".  

Recently, YTÜ diplomas have been sold to individuals with no 

links to YTÜ and even posted on "e-Devlet" (Turkey's record 

system for citizens).  It turns out that the systems of a software 

company that works with universities all around Turkey was 

supposedly hacked.  Gökmen Çiftçi, the founder of Proliz 

Software Company denied that his company's system was 

hacked and explained what happened.

"We put our system into operation in 2009 and a total of 101

universities in Turkey were using our system for their academic

activities.  After each university approved and confirmed 

diplomas we would send them to YÖKSİS" (computer system

of the High Academic Council).  So the information on e-Devlet

is from YÖKSİS, not from us."

"Our system wasn't hacked and there wasn't a leak from it. This

incident happened when the password of a YTÜ user was stolen.

Then, the hoodwinkers showed 8 people as having graduated

and sent this information to YÖKSİS.  Normally, a living 

person's data might be detected as fraudulent but not a dead

person's because they're not around to make a complaint.

In any case, the diplomas of deceased graduates can no longer

be changed in the YTÜ system."

YTÜ's two campuses...both near cemeteries.

"Beat & Release": Ex-Imam's May-December Romance Ends Badly, in Antalya

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 26 September 2024)

      The age difference was too much to overcome...

Last Saturday someone in Antalya's Gündoğmuş district called

police saying that there was a dead body lying on a cliff.  The

body in question was that of former imam (!) Mustafa Keyik 

(46), who had been shot in the  back of his head with a rifle.

Keyik's truck was found smashed into a hillside near the cliff.

Keyik had a romantic relationship for a while with M.S. (19)

and she, along with 7 other suspects, was taken into custody.

It turned out that M.S., her uncle Fedai Solak and her cousin

Tolga Solak had planned and committed the murder, after

which they dumped Keyik's body on the cliff. 

In order to make the murder look like it was an accident

(rifle shot to the head notwithstanding!), the suspects ran 

Keyik's truck into the hillside and fled.  After the Gendarmerie

completed processing, M.S. and the two Solaks were jailed,

while the other suspects were released on judicial supervision. 

"Beat & Release": It's in the Blood - Cop-killer's Cousin a Maniac Too, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 26 September 2024)

killin' cousins click here for gory details

                           Great future ahead of him.

Last Sunday night in Istanbul's Ümraniye district robbery

suspect Yunus Emre Geçti (19) grabbed a policeman's gun 

while being taken into custody and shot policewoman 

Şeyda Yılmaz to death.

Kahan Geçti, Yunus Emre's cousin and also an incorrigible 

criminal with a long police record, reacted to his cousin's

arrest by threatening citizens via his social media account. 

Kahan included photos of himself carrying an Uzi automatic

rifle and a revolver to emphasize his point, while writing 

curses to boot. 

Reactions on social media prompted Kahan to limit access

to his page and he erased what had been there, including 

his profile photo.  Nevertheless, police tracked down Kahan

at his home in Sultanbeyli and he was jailed for "actions

contrary to the firearms law."

Maybe it's something in the water....

"Teach & Release": 7th Grader and His Knockout Spanish Teacher's "Private Lessons", in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 25 September 2024)

              Mandatory learning: "Repeat 4 times!"

Betül Nisa Çelik (28), a Spanish teacher at a private school in 

Istanbul's Gaziosmanpaşa district, also sold bracelets she made

on her social media page.  On 25 December 2023, 7th grader

M.A. sent her a message to add him as a friend.  This began an 

online "friendship" between the two for a number of months,

after which Betül Nisa hanım invited M.A. to her house to 

watch a movie. 

Subsequently, the two met at her house at specific times and

Betül Nisa hanım allegedly "took advantage" of M.A. 

sexually.  M.A.'s father noticed the situation and filed a 

complaint with the public prosecutor after examining his

son's telephone.  With the help of a pedagogue, M.A. related

his relationship with the teacher online and afterwards.  He

said that as of  27 May he would go to the teacher's home to

watch films and have sex four times (!) consensually.  

Betül Nisa hanım was taken into custody and "explained"

that she thought M.A. was 16-years-old but that, in any case,

there was no sexual activity between the two (!).  Nevertheless,

she was jailed and a sentence of 21 years in prison was 

requested by the public prosecutor for "child exploitation".

But after serving 4 months in jail, Betül Nisa hamim was

released on judicial supervision. 

                  Contemplating her lesson plan. 

M.A.'s father Memduh A. lamented that this period of their

lives had been very trying and that they changed M.A.'s 

school and moved to another place to live.  The prosecutor

noted that there had been many sexually-oriented discussions

between Betül Nisa hanım and M.A. and for her to claim she

didn't know he was underage, despite being his 7th grade

teacher (!), was ludicrous. 

In her defense, Betül Nisa hanım stated that "We became

close but there were no sexual relations.  Both he and his

family have been affected by this but so have I.  If I should

be punished so be it.  I regret that it happened."  Her lawyer

related that Betül Nisa hanım had just ended a relationship

when her friendship with M.A. began so it filled a need in

her.

Nevertheless, the court sentenced Betül Nisa hanım to 

14 years 7 months in jail and if this sentence is approved

she will go back to prison. 

"Beat & Release": Cop-killer Nabbed, Dressed in Garbage Bag and Transported in Dog-catcher's Vehicle, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 24 September 2024)

           Dressed and transported appropriately.

The evening before last police in the Dudullu neighborhood

of Istanbul's Ümraniye district motorcycle thief Yunus Emre

Geçti (19) was taken into custody.  However, while talking

to his relatives in the garden of the police station, Geçti 

hopped the fence and disappeared. 

Police tracked down Geçti near midnight in the İhlamurkuyu

neighborhood but in the tussle to apprehend him Geçti grabbed

the gun of  a policeman and shot policewoman Şeyda Yılmaz

to death.  Another policeman, Kürşat Hakkı Sarıtepe, was 

injured in the shootout , as was Geçti's mother P.G. (43) .

Opposites unfortunately sometimes attract.

Geçti has a record of 26 previous crimes (!), ranging from 

"intentional wounding" to "drug trafficking and use".  Geçti

claimed he didn't recall shooting Policewoman Yılmaz but

he nevertheless confessed to it.  He was taken from the police

station, "dressed" in a garbage bag and inside a transport 

vehicle normally used for dangerous animals at 2 o'clock in

the morning, to the Anatolia Courthouse in Kartal, after 

which he was jailed. 

"Flee & Release": Too Procreative Fugitive, Said to be Abroad, Nabbed by Great Police Work, in Bursa

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 24 September 2024)

You can fool some of the people some of the time...

In 2014 Sabahattin Özer (43) was sentenced to 12 years in 

prison for "wrongful death" in Yıldırım district of Bursa but 

his friends and family united to create the impression that Özer 

had fled Turkey. (!) 

Özer was never seen around his home in Yıldırım and never

appeared on social media.  However (!),  police checked 

census records and found that Özer had fathered children in

Turkey in 2017 and 2021.  In addition, police discovered that

Özer's wife F.Ö. was living in a home with these children.

Next, police checked elementary school records, thinking 

that the child born in 2017 would be in school now.  Also,

F:Ö.'s car's license plate with "77" (Yalova)  was identifed

and this led police to her address.  The car had been seen

often in Istanbul and had come to Bursa late at night so 

police suspected that Özer was using it.

On 20 September, Özer came in the car and entered the

house.  He was then taken into custody by police and sent

to jail to fulfill his long-delayed sentence. 

"Stack & Release": Two Extra Penthouses Atop "Wedding Cake"-style Building, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 23 September 2024)

              One view's better than the other's. 

In the Fatih section of Istanbul, one of the city's oldest 

neighborhoods, it is not unusual to see extra stories

atop buildings that have been added illegally.  However (!)

the sight of two additional stories on top of one another

has raised eyebrows. 

Yıldız Technical University's Dr. Abdullah Akca, a professor

of construction engineering, explained that "With the amnesty

law that came out in 2018, many such buildings were legally

registered.  This, of course, does not mean that the risk that

such structures pose magically disappears.  (!)

"Beat & Release": Sports Club Chief Slapped by Bully Underling, in Sakarya

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 22 September 2024)

Sakaryaspor's slap-happy criminal ad man... 

A video of the president of the sports club Sakaryaspor being 

slapped by someone spread on social media the night before

last, prompting the Sakarya public prosecutor to investigate.

It turned out that the slapper was Sakaryaspor's director for

advertising and sponsorship Cengiz Şen.  The club's director

S.İ. took the video with his cellphone.  In the video, Şen

says to İn "You'll pay the 150,000 TL that Birol took! Do you

hear me?!"  and follows it up with two slaps to İn's face. (!) 

In response to the slaps, İn said humbly "OK my son. Calm

down. I have a heart problem.  You know that, right?"  

Şen, who has a police record on six crimes for "wounding"

and "threatening", was caught by police in Beşiktaş, Istanbul,

the day before yesterday, handcuffed behind his back and 

taken to jail.  

...slapped into jail.

S.İ. is still being sought by police, whereas İn,

who told those close to him after the video spread that "I'm

under threat!", fled Sakarya.  Consequently, police have not

gotten a statement from him. 

The video that came out was taken on Wednesday. The

incident has a relationship to the Sakaryaspor congress to

be held today with regard to candidates. 

"Beat & Release". Woman, Stabbed 7 Times by Ex-Husband, Jailed - Classic Case of Upside Down Justice, in Ankara

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 21 September 2024)

                     What's wrong with this picture?

Sinem T. was stabbed seven times by her former husband 

Sinan Özçelik in front of their children.  However (!),

because Sinem hanım would not allow Özçelik to see their

11 and 13-year-old daughters she was given a 3-day jail

sentence. (!!)  She entered jail on 16 September and was

released 72 hours later for a heartfelt reunion with her kids.

Sinem hanım (33), works in a beauty salon in Ankara and

divorced her physically abusive husband Özçelik (41) two 

years ago.  Last year on 24 October, Özçelik stabbed Sinem

hanım 7 times, causing her to stay in intensive care for 10

days.  With difficulty, she recovered her health. 

Özçelik was tried for attempted murder and jailed but 

released 9 months later (!).  Based on Sinem hanım's 

objection, Özçelik was re-arrested.  He, though, filed a 

complaint against Sinem hanım for not letting him see their 

daughters and she was sentenced to 3 days in jail (!).  Sinem 

hanım left the girls with her father H.T. and surrendered to 

police on 16 September and entered Sincan Closed Prison.

Upon her release, Sinem hanım said that "I want my 

children to study law and become lawyers or prosecutors

or judges so they can find ways to prevent people like me

from being punished unjustly."

Courthouse wrongly depicted rightside up.

 

"Beat & Release": Lout on Turkish Flight With "10 Factories!" Jailed

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 19 September 2024)

                                  The unfriendly skies.

As Turkish Airlines flight TK-1983 was preparing to depart from

Istanbul Airport last weekend for London, passengers were

boarding and one of them, Berat Güdül, objected to his seat 

assignment and began to argue with the flight crew. 

Güdü'sl increasingly boorish behavior disturbed the other

passengers, prompting the captain to call the police, at whom

Güdül threw punches (!).  Gürdül screamed "You can't 

arrest me, I have 10 factories!  Don't waste your breath!"

At this point, police handcuffed Gürdül behind his back and

took him off the plane.

Gürdül was fined and handed over to his family, who claimed

he has "anxiety issues" (!).   Subsequently, Gürdal appeared in

court on charges stemming from his tantrum on the plane and

was jailed. 

Hey Berat bey, London Calling...

"Rape & Release": Doctor Without Borders Re-Arrested for Rape of Another Doctor, in Lüleburgaz

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 18 September 2024)

          Proud of his bedside manner...

Dr. E.V., a doctor from a foreign country working at a 

private hospital in Lüleburgaz district of Kırklareli province,

suffered a sexual attack by the hospital's head doctor Abdullah

Çiftçi (47) on 30 May 2020.   After the attack, E.V. went to 

Edirne where her family was living, received psychological

help and then went to a police station to file a complaint against

Çiftçi. 

In her statement, E.V. told police that after she ended a 

relationship Çiftçi gave her some medicine to help her cope

and that same day, while she was working in the ER, he came

to her again and administered the same medicine to her once 

more.  In the evening, Çiftçi invited E.V. to his office for a few

drinks.  E.V. told Çiftçi she didn't feel well and the next thing 

she knew she was being raped by Çiftçi on a stretcher in the 

darkened room. 

In her woozy condition, E.V. was unable to resist Çiftçi or even

to  scream for help. In any case, Çiftçi was arrested on 19 June

2020.  In court, Çiftçi denied the charges, claiming that the

liaison was consensual.  The court, however, gave Çiftçi an 18-

year jail sentence for rape but reduced it to 15 years, based on

Çiftçi's unsullied (!) past.  

However (!) , Çiftçi appealed to a court in Istanbul and was both

acquitted and freed.  This prompted E.V.'s lawyer Bedia Mutlu 

Mirzabey to take the case to the "Yargıtay" (a higher appeals

court).  The day before yesterday, the "Yargıtay" ruled that 

Çiftçi, who participated in the hearing by ZOOM from Yalova,

had indeed raped E.V. and he was re-arrested. 

"Beat & Release": Toothache Prompts "Anti-dentite" to Shoot Up Dental Clinic, in Adana

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 18 August 2024)

Orhan A. was labled a vicious anti-dentite  on social 

media. 

In Adana's Seyhan district, after Orhan A. received dental care

at the clinic of Dr. Doğan T. (55) he went out drinking with his

friend Muhammed Can K..  Subsequently, the two friends went

by motorcycle to the clinic at one-thirty in the morning and 

fired at it with a "pompalı  tüfenk" (pump-action rifle). (!)

Police identified the idiots and took them into custody.  In his

statement Orhan A. "explained" that: "I went to the dental clinic

because my tooth was hurting.  When the treatment took too long

I got agitated.  When I was drinking I thought about my tooth

pain, got angry and went to shoot up the clinic."

As for friend Muhammed Can K., he "explained" that:"When

Orhan's tooth began hurting he wanted to go shoot up the clinic.

I didn't want to let him down so I went too."  Both idiots were

jailed. 

Police sketch of Orhan A. and Dr. Doğan T. 

at the clinic. It got worse...

"Beat & Release": Inveterate Thieves, Dressed for Success, Fail in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 17 September 2024)

                                      Steal it with style!

On 5 July, 100,000 TL (about $30,000) worth of jewelry was 

stolen from the home of Y.K. in Maltepe, Istanbul.  On 2 

September, 300 Euros was stolen from U.G:'s home in Kadıköy.

And on 5 September, thieves who entered the home of H.Ö. in

Üsküdar stole 15,000 TL, jewelry and watches. 

However (!), police were able to determine the identities of the

thieves, noticing that for each robbery they wore different 

clothes and long coats or large hats to hide their faces.  Taken

into custody in Üsküdar on 5 September were Miraç Ç. (23), 

who has a record of 36 crimes, Özlem Ç. (19), with a record 

of 5 crimes, and Petek Ç (21), who has a record of 30 crimes. 

A different kind of "runway" for this fashion plate.

"Beat & Release": Unrepentent Minibus Driver Banned From the Streets of Erzurum

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 17 August 2024)

Hacer hanım's ungraceful disembarkation. 

In Erzurum, minibus driver M.E.K. opened his vehicle's door as he 

approached a stop and Hacer Tuğra (53) fell into the street before the

minibus came to a complete halt.  Nevertheless, with Hacer hanım

writhing in pain on the street, M.E.K. drove on.  She was taken to a

hospital in an ambulance that arrived at the scene. 

Police stopped M.E.K. and asked him "Why did you leave the accident

scene?"  Defending his actions, M.E.K. "explained" that "As you know,

our  schedule is important (!) so I took my passengers where they needed

to go and arrived here (where police nabbed him).  I feel bad about what

happened.  I opened the door as I was coming to the stop but I wasn't

going fast."

Traffic police fined M.E.K. for driving an uninspected vehicle, having

an expired license and leaving the scene of an accident. Yet, the next

day M.E.K. was back at the wheel and was spotted by a local 

journalist who boarded the minibus and asked M.E.K. how he could

be driving with all the prohibitions he faced.  M.E.K. at first just 

shrugged but he then became angry and ran a red light. 

Police tracked M.E.K. down and fined him 51,000 TL (about $1,500).

In addition, since M.E.K. is a still now only a driver-candidate (!) he

was assessed 80 penalty points meaning that his driver's license is

permanently voided. (!) 

M.E.K. thinking about his next profession.

"Beat & Release": Naked Professor Found Dead in a Barrel at a Dump; Son Suspected, in Mersin

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 16 September 2024)

                    Professor and final resting place.

The naked body of Prof. Dr. Selahattin Doludeniz, formerly an 

academician at Selçuklu University in Mersin, was found in a barrel 

at a garbage dump with his hands and feet bound (!).  

Municipal workers who went to the dump in Ustalar village in Mersin's

Bozyazı district early in the morning to deposit trash, found the body 

inside a plastic barrel.  Gendarmerie, police and medics arrived at the 

scene and, after investigations, it was determined that the deceased was 

Doludeniz, who lived with his son in İskele village in Anamur district.  

The son O.D. gave conflicting statements and was taken into custody. 

In his first statement to police, O.D. "explained" that he and his father

were cross with each other so O.D. left the house for a while, but upon

his return he found his father dead so he (quite naturally!) put his body 

in a barrel and took it by taxi to the dump in Bozyazı.  

Complexion problems may have affected O.D.'s moods.

No marks of violence were found on Doludeniz's body so efforts are

underway at the forensics lab to determine the cause of death. 

Anamur and Bozyazı at lower left on map.

"Beat & Release": Uzbek Caretaker Stabbed to Death by Jealous, but Forgetful, Boyfriend, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 15 September 2024)

       "I might have done it...can't quite remember."

Last night at about nine-thirty police received a report of screams 

coming from a villa on Gürpınar Avenue in the Pınar neighborhood of

Büyükçekmece, Istanbul.  When police arrived at the scene they found

Uzbek citizen Zebiniso Dayıyavora (49) and the two elderly people she 

was caring for, M.Ö. and T.Ö., seriously injured from stab wounds.  

Zebiniso hanım died at a hospital and the two others remain in intensive 

care there. 

Police nabbed Zebiniso hanım's boyfriend Musa G. (54), who was

hiding out in a house in nearbt Küçükçekmece.  In his statement to 

police, Musa G. "explained" that he thought that Zebiniso hanım was 

cheating on him so he went to the villa to talk to her about this. 

A fight erupted between the two and "I don't remember what 

happened after that." (!) 

"Beat & Release": Worker Falls, Boss Worries About Insurance Coverage Versus Calling an Ambulance, in Ankara

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 14 September 2024)

 

                             Death by paperwork.

On 19 August, at a pastry shop in Ankara's Yenimahalle district, pastry

chef İsmail Can Seçkin (26) fell from a 4-meter high staircase with a 

"baklava" cart and was seriously injured.  He stayed in Bilkent City

Hospital's intensive care unit for 22 days before passing away.  

The claim has been made that after the accident, insurance actions were

prioritized by the shop owner, such that a call for an ambulance was 

delayed.  A record in Seçkin's "e-devlet" (Turkey's citizen data base) file 

shows that an insurance "entry" was registered on 19 August.  The 

"e-devlet" records also reflected that in a two-year period Seçkin's 

insurance "exit" occurred, the last time being in March 2024.

Seçkin's older brother Halil İbrahim Seçkin (29) claimed that his brother's

insurance "entry" occurred right after the accident. He stated that "After

he fell, the boss had the accountant find a computer so the 'entry' could

be made into the records.  Much time was wasted. Rather than worry 

about insurance, if they had called an ambulance right away my brother

might be alive today.  It's almost akin to attempted murder.  I want those

responsible to be held accountable and punished.  It's unknown whether

or not my brother fell or did not fall. There are no camera records and

the failure to have camera coverage in a workplace is yet another matter

of irresponsibility.  And there were no banisters on that staircase, yet

another matter of safety neglect. Then there's the issue of the delay in

calling the ambulance.  For an employee that had given 8 years of 

service this is intolerable."

The shop owner asserted that was just a fall from a staircase and that

there was no delay in getting Seçkin to the hospital.