Saran and Cebeci were acquitted

Within the scope of the drug investigation carried out by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, a lawsuit was filed separately against businessman Steven Sadettin Saran and newsreader Ela Rümeysa Cebeci, demanding imprisonment of not less than 10 years, on the charge of "trafficking or supplying drugs or stimulants". The drug tests of Saran and Cebeci during the investigation phase were positive.

The unarrested defendant Ela Rümeysa Cebeci and her lawyers attended the hearing held at the Istanbul 4th High Criminal Court. Steven Sadettin Saran did not come to the hearing.

'NO ONE ELSE WILL UNDERSTAND THEM'

Cebeci, who came to the stand to defend himself, stated that he repeated the statement he gave during the prosecutor's office and said the following in summary: "I absolutely deny the accusations, I do not accept them. Sadettin Saran has been in my life for 7 years, I had a romantic relationship for a while and we had a normal friendship for a while. The correspondence between us is the jokes and conversations of two people who flirt and flirt with each other. They are conversations that someone else cannot understand. I submitted the lines of some of the movies we watched to the file, they are the lines in the conversations between us. "I did not obtain drugs from anyone, I did not use drugs with anyone, I did not attend the parties mentioned in the operations, I lived with the discipline of an athlete and I submit my acquittal."

Answering the presiding judge's questions about liquid marijuana, Cebeci said, "I had an isolated trial in America. I smoked it once. I have never seen the cocaine mentioned in Turkey."

CEM YILMAZ WAS ALSO ASKED ABOUT THE MESSAGE HE SENT

The President of the Court asked Cebeci about the conversations he had with Cem Yılmaz regarding liquid marijuana (THC). Cebeci replied, "Cem was going to come to the program on New Year's Eve, and I was drinking broccoli juice. A deer came between us. What I had was an electronic cigarette." The presiding judge said that an expert report was received for the cigarette in the photo sent to Cem Yılmaz and it was determined that it was an electronic cigarette containing THC marijuana. Cebeci then said, "No."

Asked what he had to say about the positive drug test, Cebeci said: "I was surprised that it was found in my hair. Later, I learned that the issue of contamination has been tested on thousands of people and is the subject of articles. When I left the Forensic Medicine Department, I realized that my hair was contaminated."

The prosecutor asked Cebeci, "Did Sadettin Saran give you drugs or provide them to anyone else?" he asked. Cebeci replied, “No.”

After Cebeci's defense, the prosecutor announced his opinion. In the opinion, he requested that Saran and Cebeci be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than 10 years for allegedly 'trafficking or providing drugs or stimulants'.

Announcing its decision, the court decided to acquit Saran and Cebeci on the grounds that the elements of the crime charged against them were not met.