DNA evidence is being re-examined in the Çağla Tuğaltay murder investigation

The investigation into the murder of Çağla Tuğaltay, whose throat was cut while she was returning from school in Şişli Fulya on June 5, 2000, continues. Within the scope of the work initiated by Istanbul Police Department Public Order Branch Directorate Homicide Bureau teams under the coordination of the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, the findings obtained on the day of the incident and Tuğaltay's clothes were sent to the Forensic Medicine Institute for re-examination using new technological facilities.

In the examination carried out by the Forensic Medicine Institute, biological findings belonging to a foreign man were detected in two separate points of the shorts removed from Çağla Tuğaltay. It was determined that one of the DNA samples was found in the elastic part of the waist of the shorts and the other in the leg part. In the comparison, it was determined that the male DNA profiles obtained from two different parts of the shorts were compatible with the male DNA profile obtained from Tuğaltay's nails in 2013. Homicide Bureau teams started working on this and continue their work to determine the owner of the DNA obtained.

MALE DNA WAS FOUND IN HIS NAILS IN 2013