
Murder suspect father of Yakup Bozkurt, who disappeared in 2012, was arrested
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Yakup Bozkurt disappeared in 2012 and his lifeless body was found in a concrete pipe. The case remained unsolved for 14 years.
Yakup Bozkurt disappeared in May 2012 in Seyitgazi district, where his family came as seasonal workers. Upon the family's missing report, helicopters belonging to the Provincial Gendarmerie Command, AFAD, UMKE, AKUT and the Turkish Air Force were dispatched to the region. As a result of the searches, Yakup Bozkurt's lifeless body was found hidden in a concrete pipe in the rural Doğançayır District, Kırgız Tepe. Despite the studies carried out at that time, no trace could be found of Yakup Bozkurt's murder suspect.
The Unsolved Crimes Investigation Department, established within the General Directorate of Criminal Affairs of the Ministry of Justice, reopened the file that remained unsolved for 14 years. Under the coordination of Eskişehir Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, Eskişehir Gendarmerie Command Gendarmerie Crime Investigation Team (JASAT) teams searched again in the areas where Bozkurt was found dead. Within the scope of the investigation, Yakup Bozkurt's father Abdurrezzak Bozkurt, mother Huriye Çiftçi, Halil D., Salih B., Salih M. and Abdülkadir B., who were reported to have found the body, were taken into custody.
6 suspects, whose statements were taken at Eskişehir Gendarmerie Command, were sent to the courthouse after their procedures. Mother Huriye Çiftçi, one of the suspects, said that her ex-husband Abdurrezzak Bozkurt killed her son. The farmer said that after his son Yakup disappeared, his ex-husband Abdurrezzak came back with a wound on his hand about a few days later.
Stating that Abdurrezzak Bozkurt confessed to killing her son during the argument between them, the mother Çiftçi said, "He had blood on his hand and asked me for wound ointment. His hands were shaking and he was crying. When I asked him why he was crying and what to do with the ointment, he shouted at me and said 'shut up, I have Yakup'. I pushed him, Abdurrezak got angry and squeezed my throat."
Abdurrezzak Bozkurt, one of the 6 suspects who were referred to the courthouse after their statements, was arrested, while the other 5 suspects were released.

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