Doctor Nurettin Demirkol Arrested for Perjury in the Death Investigation of Former Minister of Transport Arif Ahmet Denizolgun

Doctor Nurettin Demirkol, who was previously heard as a witness in the investigation of FORMER Minister of Transport and former leader of the Süleymanists, Arif Ahmet Denizolgun, was arrested for the crime of "false testimony" after discrepancies were detected between his statements and 155 denunciation records, HTS data and other witness statements. In his first statement as a witness on August 26, 2026, Demirkol said that he did not know who called the medical and law enforcement teams, that Denizolgun was not a private doctor, and that he did not consider the death suspicious. However, in the 155 Emergency Call resolution report, it was determined that the report was made from the phone used by Demirkol, the caller introduced himself as the family doctor and said that the death was suspicious.

The prosecutor's office asked about this contradiction. Demirkol defended himself by saying, "I don't remember whether I called or someone else called on the day of the incident. I left my phone lying around. Someone else might have called from my phone." In his first statement, Demirkol said, "I was not his personal doctor." In the report, the person who called the police and introduced himself as Nurettin Demirkol says, "I am a family doctor." This contradiction was also asked. Demirkol said, “I examined the victim 2-3 times.

"But I don't know how to become a family doctor," he said. The Chief Public Prosecutor's Office also evaluated that the location information in Demirkol's first statement did not match the HTS records. In his statement on August 26, Demirkol said that he was at his residence in Kısıklı on the day of the incident. But during the prosecutor's interrogation, he was informed that there was no base record in Kısıklı between 6 September 2016 at 18.12 and 8 September 2016 at 17.46.