6th wave operation launched in Gülistan Doku investigation

The 6th wave operation has been launched in the Gülistan Doku investigation.

Erzurum Chief Public Prosecutor's Office initiated simultaneous detention, search and seizure proceedings in 7 provinces against 11 suspects on the grounds that evidence was obscured and the investigation process was interfered with.

It was reported that there were retired and current police officers among the suspects.

Her family, who had not heard from their daughter Gülistan Doku (21), a university student studying in Tunceli, since January 5, 2020, went from their hometown Diyarbakır to Tunceli and filed a missing person complaint with the police on January 6, 2020, and the search efforts were unsuccessful.

In line with the new information obtained, 19 suspects were detained within the scope of the investigation carried out by the Tunceli Chief Public Prosecutor's Office for the crimes of "deliberate murder", "aiding intentional murder", "sexual assault", "concealing-destroying of criminal evidence", "destroying-corrupting data by illegally entering the information system", "depriving the person of his/her freedom", "failure to report the crime" and "favoring the criminal".

The suspects are Tunceli Governor at the time, Tuncay Sonel, Tuncay Sonel's son Mustafa Türkay Sonel, former police officer Gökhan Ertok, who allegedly deleted the data on Doku's SIM card, then Tunceli State Hospital Chief Physician Çağdaş Özdemir, who allegedly deleted the hospital records, former Tunceli Special Provincial Administration employee Erdoğan Elaldı, Celal Altaş, Nurşen Arıkan, Ferhat Hanedan Güven, Doku's brother. His friend Zeinal Abakarov, his mother Cemile Yücer and his stepfather Engin Yücer, who was a former police officer, Şükrü Eroğlu, who was Tuncay Sonel's protection police officer at the time, and security guard Fatih Özmen were arrested.