He killed his ex-wife by strangling her with a scarf in Antalya! His punishment has been announced

The incident took place on September 11, 2025, around 01:00, on the ground floor of a 3-storey apartment building on Örnekköy Street, Güzeloba District, Muratpaşa district. Hanım Biçer (30), the mother of two children, who moved to her new house a week before the incident, came home with her ex-husband Hızır Çelik (33). The argument between the two turned into a fight. Çelik strangled his ex-wife Biçer with a scarf and then covered her face with a pillow. Hızır Çelik, who left the house 3 hours later, called Hanım Biçer's brother approximately 16 hours later and said, "I killed my wife, I will go and surrender" and hung up the phone. Biçer's relatives reported the situation to the 112 Emergency Call Center.

Homicide Bureau teams entered the house and determined that Hanım Biçer had lost her life. Biçer's lifeless body was taken to the Antalya Forensic Medicine Institute morgue. Hızır Çelik also went to Döşemealtı Police Station and surrendered. In Çelik's first statement; It was stated that his wife told him, "I will tell your family that we met again" and asked for money, so an argument broke out and he killed her. Hızır Çelik was arrested after the procedures.

On the other hand, Hanım Biçer's last moments were reflected on the security camera. In the images; It was seen that Biçer and Çelik entered the site, Hanım Biçer opened the door and the duo entered the house, and after a while, Hızır Çelik left the house alone. An indictment was prepared against Hızır Çelik for the crimes of 'intentional murder of a woman and her divorced husband' and 'theft by taking advantage of the person's death'.

The detained defendant Hızır Çelik, complainants Resul Biçer and Recep Biçer and party lawyers attended the decision hearing held at Antalya 1st High Criminal Court. The defendant Hızır Çelik, whose last words were asked, said: "I did not commit murder, if I wanted to commit it, I would have committed it on the first day. After the divorce, I felt like a prostitute and lived accordingly, I tried to live like that for 6-7 months because I was afraid. I was both mother and father to my children. It is not possible to cope with the lady's family, they said 'don't divorce, kill'. I tried to escape for 8 months, I did everything to protect my children. If I wanted to kill someone, I was doing construction work, I would take them somewhere." "I would kill him," he said. The court sentenced the defendant Hızır Çelik to aggravated life imprisonment. There was no reduction in the defendant's sentence.

After the hearing, Lawyer Yağmur Burçin Mr. Kurt, who made a statement on behalf of the Children and Women First Association, said: "An opinion was given in the previous hearing. In line with the opinion, we made a precedent decision without applying the unfair provocation discount. We want this decision to be applied in other murder files as well. Although the victims were slandered in order to benefit from the extremely unfair provocation discount, we did not see this in this file. The defendant was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment. Even though the deceased does not come back, our conscience is "He was relieved," he said.