The hearing of the case regarding Manisa Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ferdi Zeyrek's death by electrocution in the pool at his home was held at Manisa 2nd High Criminal Court.
Zeyrek's wife Nurcan Zeyrek, daughter Nehir Zeyrek, family lawyers, some defendants and their lawyers attended the hearing.
16 defendants, including 6 Yunusemre Municipality personnel, are being tried for "negligently causing the death of one person and injury of another person", with a prison sentence of 2 to 15 years.
4 DEFENDANTS WERE FOUND TO BE FUNDAMENTALLY DEFECTIVE IN THE EXPERT REPORT
The 46-page expert report prepared by 5 academics from Dokuz Eylül University was discussed at the hearing.
In the report, it was stated that 4 of the 16 defendants had primary fault, 9 had secondary fault, and 3 defendants had no fault.
Expert panel; N.B., the author of the pool installation work, H.A., the owner of the coil winding company, M.G., the building contractor. and H.İ., who worked in the winding company, as being primarily at fault.
Yunusemre Municipality staff A.Ö. and M.S. and Ö.T., civil engineer E.K., project and application inspector R.A., mechanical engineer H.Ş., electrical engineer M.Ç., pool manager Y.Ö. and site officer A.S. was found to be at fault.
Electricity distribution company personnel M.E., Yunusemre Municipality Planning and Urbanization Manager H.A. and Building Document Officer H.E. It was stated that there was no fault in the case.
OBJECT FROM THE DEFENDANTS TO THE EXPERT REPORT
H.A., the owner of the winding company, who was considered to be primarily at fault in the expert report, argued that it could not be determined whether the pool motor used in the incident was repaired by him.
Stating that he sold an engine in 2022 but the incident occurred in 2025, H.A. said:
"It is not clear whether it is my engine or not. Is it my engine, or did it break down and was bought new? We do not know whether it was built by someone else. I have a list of every job I have done. Maybe it broke down after 6 months, someone else did it, but since there is no record, nothing is clear. The job is left to me. I do not accept it, let it be understood whether it is the engine I built or not."
'SUBMERSIBLE PUMP HAS NOT BEEN RESEARCHED IN ANY WAY'
The author of the pool installation work is N.B. He also objected to the expert report and claimed that it was not sufficiently investigated which electrical equipment was operating at the time of the incident.
N.B. argued that the submersible pump in the pool was not examined and said, "On the day of the incident, the Personal President tried to go downstairs while the submersible pump was running and remained on the stairs without being able to intervene. There was no jacuzzi pump working at that time, the circulation pump's fuse was already gone. There was only one submersible pump left. However, this submersible pump was not investigated in any way."
Claiming that the absence of a residual current relay was effective in the incident, N.B. claimed that the relay may have been canceled before and asked for this issue to be investigated.
Other defendants also objected to the expert report and requested that a new or additional report be prepared.
Zeyrek family and their lawyers objected to the fault assessments regarding some defendants and requested an additional expert report.
ADDITIONAL REPORT DECISION FROM THE COURT
Evaluating the statements of the parties, the court decided to send the file to the relevant committee for the preparation of an additional expert report.
The court also decided to obtain an opinion from the Forensic Medicine Institute regarding the extent of Nurcan Zeyrek's injury and the waiting and treatment process after the incident.
The hearing was postponed to February 3, 2027.
TENSION AFTER THE HEARING
On the other hand, after the hearing, there was tension around the courthouse between Ferdi Zeyrek's relatives and some relatives of the defendants.
