New details have emerged in the serial murders in İHSANİYE district, in which 8 people were killed with a shotgun and 2 people were injured. Arif Sefa Özdemir, a combine harvester operator and farmer in Bozhüyük village, committed massacres in 3 different villages and 4 different points.
FIRST STOP AYAZINI VILLAGE
The first stop of the murders committed in villages close to each other was Ayazini village. Özdemir first killed Numan and Bekir Toprak and Ahmet Uzel, with whom he had debt problems, by shooting them in the head in the rural area outside the village at 15.10.
Numan Toprak - Ahmet Uzel - Bekir Toprak
He arranged the bodies side by side
Özdemir, who started his journey of massacre, continued his serial murders by stealing vehicles to escape after committing the first murders. 20 minutes after his first attack, he killed Seydi Ahmet Aydoğmuş (73) and his wife Satı Aydoğmuş (68), who were in the car he stopped while driving in Kıyır village at 15.30, by shooting them in the head from close range. After removing the bodies of the Aydoğmuş couple from the vehicle and placing them side by side, he took their vehicle and continued to escape.
Satı Aydoğmuş - Seydi Ahmet Aydoğmuş
HE SHOT THE TEACHERS
About 1 kilometer later, he stopped the vehicle of İsmail Şen, who was buying and selling animals. Özdemir, who killed Şen here, continued his murder journey.
İsmail Şen
He moved to Yukarıtandır village and massacred female teachers at 15.47. Hilal Mete, the teacher he shot in the head, died in the vehicle, and Ayşe Sena Demir died in the hospital where she was taken.
Ayşe Sena Demir - Hilal Mete
8 MURDERS IN 45 MINUTES
Özdemir then shot Sevgi Postalcı in the head as she went to pick up her children from school in Afyonkarahisar city center. Severely injured mother of three children, Sevgi Postalcı, continues her treatment in the hospital. The murderer, who was captured in Eskişehir Seyitgazi, killed 8 people and injured 2 people in just 45 minutes.
Sevgi Postalcı
VILLAGERS CLEANED THE BLOOD TRACES
There was mourning in the villages of İhsaniye district of Afyonkarahisar. Following the events, citizens in Kıyık village cleaned the traces of blood on the roadside where Seydi Ahmet Aydoğmuş and his wife Satı Aydoğmuş were killed, with water and brushes. The Aydoğmuş couple were buried in the village cemetery after the funeral ceremony held in the village mosque after the Friday prayer.
DEATH ROAD
Crime scene investigation tapes of the police forces were still standing on the roadside near Ayazini village of İhsaniye district, one of the points where the massacre started, where Ahmet Üzel, Bekir Toprak and Numan Toprak were killed.
HIS EXPRESSION WAS HORRORED... I COUNTED DOWN FROM 10 AND SHOOT
For this reason, the statement of Arif Sefa Özdemir, who was high in alcohol when he was caught, could not be taken in the first place. Özdemir, who testified at the gendarmerie after a while, explained the murders in cold blood. What he said in his statement was bloodcurdling:
WHEN THE COMBINE COMES ON...
"I bought a combine harvester from Kırşehir native Numan Toprak with a term loan for 40 thousand Euros, and started working around Manisa and Izmir. While I was working in a field in Izmir, the combine harvester suddenly burned down and became unusable. I owed 4 thousand Euros for the combine harvester, but I was asked for 11 thousand Euros. Since I did not accept this debt, there were arguments and fights between us. I invited them to the village. After meeting at the entrance of Gazlıgöl, I called the people to Ayazini village. We argued, and after this discussion, I decided to kill these people. I pulled the people to the rural area, saying 'Let's go to get money from my father and look at the field.' I approached the front of the vehicle and shot them 2 times, aiming at their heads to kill Numan and the person next to him. When I saw him moving, I shot him one more time and made sure he was dead.
That combine harvester that burned down in Izmir and started everything...
SO THAT HE DON'T CALL THE POLICE...
After the first murders, other incidents occurred to change vehicles on the escape route. I killed Seydi Ahmet Aydoğmuş and Satı Aydoğmuş, who were in the vehicle with plate number 35 AG 5198, which I stopped on the Kıyır village road, because they did not give up their vehicles. While I was driving, I shot İsmail Şen in the head and killed him when he saw the rifle and said he would call the police. At the Selimiye village location, I opened fire on a truck that was cornering me. As I approached Yukarıtandır village in İhsaniye district, I stopped the black vehicle to change the vehicle. There were three women in the vehicle. The one in the front seat got out. I told the person who got out that I had killed many people and that I needed a vehicle to escape. The other two people went down. First I counted from 10, then from 5. When I saw that they did not get off and did not leave the phone, I aimed and shot at both of them separately and killed them. I did not harm the person who got out of the vehicle.
Many shotgun cartridges were found in the vehicle where the murderer was licked.
I WAS CAUGHT RUNNING AWAY ON FOOT
After this incident, I rear-ended another vehicle in front of me and then went to the Eskişehir Seyitgazi border. I took the vehicle of citizens collecting mushrooms in Kırka and Taşlık neighborhoods, and then another vehicle, at gunpoint. I found the houses of the headmen in the villages I entered and introduced myself as 'inspection officer from Ankara' and 'MİT personnel'. I tried to buy the service pistols, but I couldn't. I escaped on foot after the vehicle got stuck in the mud. I bought a vehicle with its keys in Taşlık District. After the gendarmerie's 'Stop' warning, I got out of the vehicle and started to run away on foot. Then I got caught. "I regret what I did, I didn't know what I was doing under the influence of alcohol."
ARRESTED
It was learned that Arif Sefa Özdemir, who was arrested for 'intentional murder of more than one person', lived in Bozhüyük village of İhsaniye district, got married in 2021 and divorced 3 years later, and was the father of 1 child.
'STAND AWAY AND LOOK I KILLED 8 PEOPLE'
The moments when Arif Sefa Özdemir emerged from the vehicle with a shotgun in his hand were captured on security camera footage. It was seen that Özdemir, who came out of a red light commercial vehicle with a shotgun, threatened the driver of another vehicle he stopped by saying, "Move over, look, I killed 8 people, move over." and then hijacked the car with plate number 26 APL 557.
LAST GOODBYE TO THE VICTIMS
SENA ÖĞRETMEN'S MOTHER FOUND OUT FROM THE NEWS: IS THAT MY DAUGHTER ON TV?
The murders of Science Teacher Ayşe Sena Demir and Religious Culture and Ethics Teacher Hilal Mete, who were working at Yukarıtandır Secondary School, left the village in mourning. Following the incident, education at the school was suspended for a day and students were unable to attend classes. Ayşe Sena Demir's mother, Hayrunissa Demir, who lives in Antalya, said that she learned about the incident on television: “There was a subtitle on television about the incident in İhsaniye. The phone rang. Mr. Manager called. I thought there was an extraordinary situation regarding the Director's call. "Mr. Manager, is there something wrong?" I asked. "No, teacher Sena was involved in a minor accident," he said. I said, 'I saw it on TV. A case of murder. I said, 'Not that.' The manager said, 'No, it has nothing to do with that.' But of course, fire broke out in me. "First I believed, then I understood the color of the situation," he said. Demir's funeral was buried in tears at the Kurşunluğu Cemetery in Aksu district of Antalya.
A ceremony was held for Ayşe Sena Demir at Antalya Muratpaşa Mosque.
A funeral ceremony was held for Seydi Ahmet Aydoğmuş and his wife Satı Aydoğmuş at the village mosque after the Friday prayer.
SO THAT HIS FATHER WON'T BE LEFT ALONE...
The body of Hilal Mete (31), mother of one child, was taken from the morgue of Afyonkarahisar State Hospital and brought to the Pasha Mosque in the city center. Hilal Mete's wife and relatives came to the coffin and shed tears.
It was learned that Hilal Mete, who was buried in Afyonkarahisar Bayraktepe Cemetery after the noon prayer, requested to be transferred to her hometown, Afyonkarahisar, two years ago in order to be with her father, who was left alone after the death of her mother. (DHA)
Hürriyet is at the scene... News: Fevzi Kızılkoyun / Photo: Mert Gökhan Koç
