Decision made in Said Bey Site, where 44 people died

The decision hearing of the case heard at the Kahramanmaraş 4th High Criminal Court regarding the death of 44 people as a result of the collapse of the Said Bey Site in the Yahya Kemal District of Dulkadiroğlu district in the first earthquake that occurred on February 6 was held. Arrested contractor Hasan Çam (55), ZBK Construction Inspection Company official Sıla A. (34), who is not detained, lawyers of the parties and relatives of those who died on the site, attended the hearing. Sehay Yapı Inspection Company official Yavuz Kaygısız (57) and building inspection company control employee Melike Yiğit (35) were connected to the hearing via the SEGBİS system from the courthouses in the cities where they are located.

The unarrested defendants, Sehay Construction Control Company owner Halil Yıldız (57), construction site supervisors Murat Kaş (41), Halil İbrahim Us (36), Dulkadiroğlu Municipality Zoning and Urbanization Manager Arzu Özaydın (48), Deputy Manager Serap Binici (43), ZBK Construction Control Company official Zehra Betül K. (47) and static project and application inspector İsmail K. (77), who took part in the construction of the building, had their last words at the hearing, which they did not attend. Hasan Çam, one of the defendants, stated that he did not understand construction, that he was running a market, that he only procured materials for the construction of the building and paid for it, therefore he was innocent and requested his acquittal.

Melike Yiğit and Yavuz Kaygısız also denied the accusations and requested their acquittal. Sıla A. stated that the signature on the document did not belong to her and requested that the signature be examined.

In his opinion on the merits, the public prosecutor stated that there was sufficient evidence in the file that Hasan Çam, Halil Yıldız, Yavuz Kaygısız, Melike Yiğit, Murat Kaş, Halil İbrahim Us, Arzu Özaydın and Serap Binici committed the crimes charged against them, and that the defendants were sentenced to 22 years and 6 months in prison each for the crime of "causing the death and injury of more than one person through conscious negligence" and that Hasan Çam was detained in detention. He demanded the continuation of his situation. The prosecutor also stated that the trial of 3 officials of ZBK Construction Control Company, against whom an indictment was issued in July, had just started and that the main case had been going on for 3 years and requested the separation of the files of the 3 defendants.