türkçe links to original Turkish article
(Hürriyet Newspaper, 30 August 2023)
must-see video:
https://karabukpostasi.com/iki-kisinin-oldugu-feci-kaza-ani-kamerada/
Upside-down road-rage justice.
Last year in Karabük on 30 June, Ali Emre Gürel (21), the son of Fuat
Gürel, who was the governor of Karabük province at that time, crashed
into a car driven by Salih Portakal, who entered a roundabout en route
to Safranbolu. Both Portakal (71) and his wife Behiye (69) were killed
in the accident, while Gürel and his friend Bedrihan Erdoğan (!) (20)
were injured.
Gürel was taken into custody after hospital treatment and jailed, but his
lawyer was able to have him released from prison after only 37 days.
A case was opened against Gürel for "causing the deaths of more than
one individual through negligence." and a sentence of up to 15 years
requested by the public prosecutor.
However (!), the "expert witness" report about the accident found that
Portakal was more at fault than Gürel in the accident. The video of
the crash was finally released to the public after Gürel's father, the then-
governor, was reassigned to a position in Ankara (!). At the end of his
trial Gürel was sentenced to 3 years and six months in prison. However,
this sentence was reduced to 2 years and 11 months because "the court
took into consideration the suspect's past, his behavior during the course
of the trial and the impact the penalty would have on the suspect's future."
The court also lifted judicial supervision conditions that had been applied
to Gürel.
(Incredibly!) Portakal's son Erdem Portakal was ordered to pay 174,258
TL (about $6,500) for repairs to Gürel's car.
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