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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 17 March 2026)
"Blue Light Special" award for great police work!
On July 3, 2019, in Maltepe, Istanbul, Ersin Yılmaz (37), upon learning
of his Uzbekistani wife Khurriyat Tursun Boeva's (35) relationship with
her former lover, killed her by hitting her on the head with a stick during
an argument at home. After keeping the body in the balcony space for a
month, Yılmaz brought it inside because it smelled, dismembered its limbs,
and threw them in the trash. Seven years after the incident, while
examining missing person reports, police teams identified suspicious
statements and uncovered the murder through a "luminol" analysis
conducted on the balcony, where lime had been poured to cover the
smell.
NOTE: "Luminol" is a white-yellow crystalline chemical that emits blue
light (chemiluminescence) when it reacts with an oxidizing agent
(hydrogen peroxide). It is primarily used in forensics to detect traces of
cleaned or invisible blood, based on the principle that it glows when it
reacts with iron in the blood.
According to the allegations, Ersin Yılmaz, a hairdresser living in Didim,
Aydın province with his mother, father, and wife Khurriyat Tursun Boeva,
frequently argued with his wife, the mother of his two children, due to
jealousy. In 2019, he and his wife moved to Istanbul and settled in the
Fındıklı neighborhood of Maltepe. After the couple moved into their
rented apartment, Sevara Zakhıdova, unable to contact her sister Khurriyat,
filed a missing person report with the prosecutor's office on October 30,
2019. Yılmaz told family members and the police that he had argued with
his wife, that she had left him, and that she had been deported.
Following a special instruction from Istanbul Police Chief Selami Yıldız,
police teams from the Missing Persons Bureau of the Public Security Branch,
after reviewing files taken down from the shelf, determined that there was
no record of the missing Khurriyat leaving the country and that her phone
was actively in circulation.
Suspicious, police teams listened to neighbors on Zambak Street, who
reported that they had argued with Yılmaz due to a bad smell and that
Yılmaz had told them he kept pigeons. Based on this information, police
examined the apartment. Using a chemical analysis technique that uses
blue light to detect blood traces, traces of blood were found on the balcony.
Continuing their investigation based on the evidence, police teams
determined that Yılmaz had filed for divorce from his wife in 2020,
and that the divorce was finalized after five years due to the lack of a
response. They also discovered that Yılmaz had inserted a SIM card
into his wife's phone to make it appear as if she were alive, and then
frequently traveled to Georgia using the identity of his friend Anıl Y. (33).
Police teams, who launched an operation to apprehend the murder
suspects, detained Ersin Yılmaz, who had left Georgia and entered
Turkey on March 9, 2026, and gone to Aydın to be with his family,
and his friend Anıl Y. in Istanbul.
In his statement to the police, Ersin Yılmaz confessed to the crime,
"explaining" that he killed his wife by hitting her on the head with a
stick during an argument in the kitchen due to jealousy, while their two
children were in the room. He said he buried her in a space on the
balcony, covered with garden sand, and hid it for a month. He stated
that when the body started to smell, he poured lime into it. When he
couldn't control the smell, he dug up the body, dismembered it, put the
limbs in bags, and threw them into a trash can in the neighborhood.
In his statement, Yılmaz claimed they argued because of images of his
wife with her ex-boyfriend, saying: “During the argument, she insulted
me so much that I lost my temper. When I grabbed a stick, I hit her on
the head, and she fell. The children were in the room and didn't see.
I threw potting soil on her and buried her on the balcony. When I couldn't
cope with the smell, I cut her into pieces, put them in black bags, and
threw them into a container 50 meters away.”
Anıl Y., a friend who was detained for giving his identity to the murder
suspect, stated in his testimony, "I had no knowledge; he told me he was
going abroad."
The two suspects, after completing their procedures at the police station,
were transferred to the Anadolu Courthouse in Kartal.
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