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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.
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