The incident took place on December 8 last year, in the 14-storey building in Eser Street, Köşk District, Melikgazi district. Retired sergeant major İlhan Şahan went to the house where his wife, Yasemin Şahan, a retired nurse, from whom he lived separately and was in the process of divorcing. Şahan entered the building and stabbed to death Melek Gül, the wife of the apartment attendant E.G., whom he encountered and had an argument with for an undetermined reason. After the fight, İlhan Şahan went to his wife's apartment and tried to break the door with the ax he had with him. However, Şahan, who could not break the door, ran away. İlhan Şahan, who was caught by the police, was arrested in court.
Following the investigation carried out by the Kayseri Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, an indictment was prepared against İlhan Şahan, demanding life imprisonment for the crimes of 'deliberately killing a woman' and 'attempting to deliberately kill his wife'. In the indictment accepted by Kayseri 3rd High Criminal Court, the defendant's history of systematic violence and threats against his wife was also revealed. In the indictment prepared, it was stated that Yasemin Şahan took shelter in a women's shelter due to the violence she suffered in June last year and filed a complaint against her husband. It was reported that Şahan later took his young son with him and moved to Cyprus in order to cover his tracks, but the defendant İlhan Şahan continued his threatening messages. It was learned that the defendant, who found his wife's address and went to Cyprus, was imprisoned for 4 months upon the complaint there.
It was reported that Yasemin Şahan, who returned to Kayseri in June last year, received a 6-month restraining order after her husband knocked on her door again in August. During this process, it was included in the indictment that İlhan Şahan injured his mother-in-law by hitting her head with a hammer and was detained for 2 months for this crime. The moments when the defendant secretly entered the building 4 months before the incident were recorded on security cameras, while the threatening voice recordings he sent to his wife were also included in the file as evidence.
At the decision hearing of the case held at Kayseri 3rd High Criminal Court, the detained defendant İlhan Şahan and the complainant wife of the murdered Melek Gül, E.G., her sister and the defendant's wife Yasemin Şahan, who is in the divorce phase, were present. Lawyers of the Ministry of Family and Social Services also intervened in the case.
Defendant İlhan Şahan, who was asked for his last words at the hearing, said, "I am willing to accept any punishment to be determined by your court." The complainants reiterated their complaint against the defendant and demanded that he be punished in the most severe way.
At the end of the trial, the court sentenced the detained defendant İlhan Şahan to aggravated life imprisonment for the crime of "intentional murder of a woman" for his action against Melek Gül. On the grounds that the defendant's action against his wife remained at the stage of attempt, the committee ruled that he be sentenced to 14 years in prison for the crime of "attempting to deliberately kill his wife" and 6 months in prison for the crime of "violating the immunity of residence". No discretionary reduction was applied to the defendant.
