Aggravated life sentence for Cemal Alpaslan, who killed İlayda Alkaş with 12 bullets

The incident took place on the evening of July 15, 2025, in Yenişehir district, Şehitlik District, 50th Street. While İlayda Alkaş was going home with her family after her friend's birthday, she was attacked by Cemal Alpaslan, with whom she had a religious marriage.

While Alkaş collapsed to the ground, Cemal Alpaslan ran away. İlayda Alkaş, who was taken to Selahaddin Eyyubi State Hospital by ambulance sent to the address upon notice, could not be saved despite all the interventions.

Cemal Alpaslan was detained at the Habur Kara Border Gate in Şırnak on December 15, 5 months after the incident. Alpaslan, who was brought to Diyarbakır, was arrested in the courthouse after the procedures.

In the indictment prepared by the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office regarding the murder, it was stated that the suspect Cemal Alpaslan was sitting in the coffee house where the incident took place, waiting for İlayda Alkaş to come home, and that the young woman had 12 bullets in various parts of her body. In the indictment, aggravated life imprisonment was requested for Cemal Alpaslan for the crime of "deliberately killing his divorced wife".

The defendant Cemal Alpaslan, his lawyers, the complainant's lawyers and the lawyer of the Provincial Directorate of Family Social Services attended the third hearing of the case held at Diyarbakır 7th High Criminal Court.

Defendant Cemal Alpaslan, who made his defense at the hearing, claimed that he shot İlayda randomly and said, "I loved my late husband very much. I wanted to go to him so that I would experience the feeling of fatherhood for the first time. My purpose in going there was not to fight. I went to talk to my wife. As soon as my wife saw me, she looked at me and said, 'Why are you following me, I had your child aborted' and at that moment the blood jumped to my head. At that moment I realized that she had aborted the child. Then I shot randomly. Then I drove away from the scene in a taxi. After I came to my senses at the airport. I called my brother. I was carrying the gun because of my father and my uncle's enemies. Then I made an agreement with the truck driver to go to the border. At that moment, I wished that this incident had not happened. I loved my wife very much. I am sorry, I seek refuge in your justice.

While the prosecutor's office requested the continuation of detention, the defendant's lawyers stated that the murder was committed due to unjust provocation and that an unjust provocation discount should be applied. The victim's lawyers demanded that Cemal Alpaslan be punished for the crime of "premeditated murder".

The court ruled that Cemal Alpaslan should be sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment for the crime of 'intentional murder', and 2.5 years of imprisonment and a fine of 20 thousand TL for the crime of 'possession of an unlicensed weapon'.