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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 10 June 2026)
Will change her name to "Injustice" when she gets to jail.
Prosecutors have sought an aggravated life sentence for Adalet Uzunoğlu
(69 and whose name means "justice" !), a mother of three, on charges of
"aggravated intentional homicide of a spouse" after she killed her husband,
retired police officer Ali Fuat Uzunoğlu (77), dismembered his body into
15 pieces using a hatchet and a knife, and disposed of the remains in trash
bins and dumpsters. (!)
The indictment, accepted by the High Criminal Court, states that while
dismembering her husband's body, Adalet hanım laid out plastic bags
to prevent blood from splattering, hid bloodstained clothing in the toilet
drain, and discarded the body parts—which she had placed in bags—into
dumpsters located in "blind spots" outside the range of security cameras.
The incident took place on January 28 in an apartment on the third floor
of a three-story building on İzzet Street in the Selamet Neighborhood of
Osmangazi district. On January 30, around 9:30 PM, Adalet hanım
went to the police station and reported her husband missing (!), claiming
that two days earlier, he had gone down to the entrance of their three-story
home to check the doorbell but never returned.
When Adalet hanım gave contradictory answers to the police officers'
questions, the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office launched an
investigation and assigned teams from the Provincial Security Directorate's
Public Order Branch—specifically the Homicide Bureau—to the case.
Crime scene investigation teams were dispatched to the address.
An examination was conducted on the top floor of a three-story building
owned by the couple; the first two floors were found to be vacant.
Traces of blood were discovered at the entrance of the apartment—
which appeared filthy and neglected—as well as on an electrical outlet,
the sink, and a cleaver and knife found in the home. Biological analysis
also revealed tissue fragments in various parts of the house.
Adalet hanım leading the "dumpster tour".
Following the release of the forensic report, Adalet hanım, her sons
F.U. (48) and M.U. (50), and her sibling M.Ö. (65) were taken into
custody on April 3 by teams from the Homicide Bureau of the Provincial
Security Directorate’s Public Security Branch.
During police questioning, Adalet hanım denied killing her husband but
admitted to dismembering the body (!), stating: "When I woke up on the
morning of the incident, he was lying motionless at the foot of the stairs.
He had fallen down the stairs and died. I was afraid that people would think
I had pushed him to his death and that the blame would fall on me. I cut my
husband’s body into 15 pieces using a cleaver and a knife, and disposed of
them in various trash bins near my home."
Adalet hanım was arrested on charges of intentional homicide by
the court she appeared before after being referred to the courthouse on
April 5; meanwhile, her two sons and her sibling, who had been detained
as part of the investigation, were released under judicial control measures.
Also, security camera footage captured the last image of Ali Fuat
Uzunoğlu before he was killed. Uzunoğlu was seen leaving a *Mevlüt*
(religious gathering) at the mosque at 00:18 on January 28—the day the
incident occurred—carrying a carton of fruit juice.
Searches conducted by Crime Scene Investigation teams in the trash bins
on the street where the house is located and in the surrounding area yielded
no body parts. It was revealed that, on April 4—the day before her arrest—
Adalet Uzunoğlu was taken to the scene around 15:00 to reconstruct the
events.
Brought to the street where she lived, accompanied by the prosecutor and
police officers leading the investigation, Uzunoğlu explained exactly how
and in which trash bins and dumpsters she had disposed of the body parts.
The moments when the mother of three demonstrated the locations and
recounted the incident alongside the prosecutor and police were captured
by the security camera of a nearby house.
The investigation conducted by the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office
has concluded, and an indictment has been prepared. The indictment seeks
a sentence of aggravated life imprisonment for Adalet Uzunoğlu on the
charge of "aggravated intentional homicide of a spouse." It details how
she spread plastic bags around to prevent blood splatter, dismembering
her husband's body, hiding his bloodstained clothing in the toilet drain, and
disposing of the body parts—placed in bags—into trash containers located
in "blind spots" outside the range of security cameras.
It was revealed that during a phone call with her children, Uzunoğlu said,
"I had a mental breakdown, my dear. I disposed of the dead man's body."
However, in her official statement, she denied killing her husband; she
claimed she found him lying motionless at the top of the stairs and—finding
no pulse—chopped the body into 10–15 pieces with a hatchet found in the
home and threw them in the trash to avoid being suspected of his murder.
It was also noted that the mother of three provided a detailed account of
how she dismembered the body and which trash containers she used for
disposal during the crime scene reenactment.
Dumpster delights (!)
The indictment also includes the statement Adalet hanım gave to the
police. It was noted that Uzunoğlu stated the following in her testimony:
“On January 28, my husband left the house to attend the morning prayer.
A short while later, I stepped out of the apartment door to take out the trash.
I saw my husband lying on the ground floor, near the stairs. When I went
to check on him, I could not detect a pulse. I thought he was dead, and in
a panic—fearing I would be suspected of killing him—I began to dismember
the body. I bagged the parts separately. I covered the surrounding area with
plastic sheeting while cutting. I dismembered the body with a small axe.
I then distributed the bagged parts into various trash bins around my home.”
The indictment, which details the proceedings, notes that although the
victim's body was never recovered (!), a precedent ruling by the 1st Penal
Chamber of the Court of Cassation applies; the ruling establishes that
"the failure to locate a body does not, in itself, mean the crime was not
committed."
It was determined that the defendant had previously told others that the
victim "always oppressed and continues to oppress" her and their children.
When the defendant's statements, forensic reports, scientific data, the
circumstances of the incident, factual events consistent with the ordinary
course of life, and mutually corroborating evidence were evaluated together,
it was concluded that the suspect had intentionally killedAli Fuat Uzunoğlu,
and subsequently engaged in systematic actions to destroy evidence of
the crime.
The indictment—which ruled against prosecuting the defendant's
children (S.U., F.U., and M.U.) and his sibling (M.Ö.)—was accepted by
the High Criminal Court, and the defendant's trial is set to begin in the
coming days.
