The incident took place on January 9 in Süleymanpaşa district, Hürriyet District, Teachers Street. Police, health and fire brigade teams were dispatched to the address upon the notice of the neighborhood residents who saw smoke rising from the flat on the 2nd floor of the 4-storey apartment building. The teams came to the house where Binnaz Eriş lived alone, broke the locked door, entered and intervened in the flames. The fire was extinguished in a short time.
During the search in the apartment, firefighters found Eriş's lifeless body covered in blood. It was determined that Binnaz Eriş was stabbed to death.
HE CUT HIS THROAT
Police teams examined all security cameras in the area regarding the murder of Binnaz Eriş, the mother of Süleymanpaşa Municipality Council Member Serkan Eriş. As murder suspects, Binnaz Eriş's sister's daughter İnci Çalışkan and her husband C.Ç. He was detained. İnci Çalışkan, who confessed her crime in her first statement to the police, stated that she went to the house of her aunt Eriş and killed her by cutting her throat and stabbing her in the stomach, and left the house with the gold and money and her mobile phone. It was determined that İnci Çalışkan took approximately 1 million lira worth of gold and some money to her home and hid it, then went to pick up her child from school and in the meantime threw her mobile phone near the garbage container in front of Zübeyde Hanım Girls' Vocational High School on Government Street.
HE CAME HOME AND CRIED
It was stated that İnci Çalışkan then went back to Eriş's house, poured cologne on his body and set it on fire, and that was why the fire in the house broke out. It was recorded that Çalışkan, who came to the scene again after the murder was revealed, shed tears together with his relatives.
İnci Çalışkan and her husband C.Ç. were sent to the courthouse after their procedures at the police station. Çalışkan, one of the suspects, was arrested and his wife was released on condition of judicial control. In the statement of the arrested Çalışkan, it was stated that he was very sorry and said, "I didn't want it to happen like this. They wanted it, they directed me," referring to Ömer B., his alleged lover. Ömer B. was later arrested as part of the investigation.
PUNISHMENT REQUEST FOR 4 CRIME
The indictment prepared by the Tekirdağ Chief Public Prosecutor's Office regarding the incident was accepted at the Tekirdağ 3rd High Criminal Court. During the disciplinary review, it was decided to release Ömer B. In the indictment, it was requested that İnci Çalışkan be punished for the crimes of 'Killing a man with a monstrous feeling by premeditating against a woman', 'Deliberately killing to hide the crime', 'Starting a fire', 'Damaging property', 'Plundering the victim'. It was stated that a lawsuit was filed against Ömer B. for the crime of "incitement".
HE ASKED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
In the indictment, it is stated that İnci Çalışkan entered artificial intelligence applications before the murder and asked, 'Will he die faster if I shoot him in the skull?', 'How can the body be disposed of?', 'Will he suffer if he is shot in the skull?' 'Do pepper gas, a knife to the stomach kill quickly?', 'Killing without leaving a trace?' and searches related to the gold market and stun injections were detected. The indictment included information that there were camera recordings of Çalışkan entering and leaving the house where the incident took place, that 2 cups of coffee were found in the house, cabinets and belongings were scattered, and bags were opened and distributed. In the indictment, which stated that a bloody knife, screwdriver, freshly washed laundry, bloody cheesecloth, 340 dollars and 40 euros were found during the search at Çalışkan's house, it was recorded that the defendant exchanged gold at the jeweler on the same day. It was also reported that there were traces of blood belonging to Binnaz Eriş on the knife found in İnci Çalışkan's house, and DNA samples belonging to İnci Çalışkan were found on the white hand towel in the kitchen of Eriş's residence. It was also stated that Çalışkan testified that if he could not find money, Ömer B. would sexually assault him.
THE DEFENDANT COULD NOT BE BROUGHT
The trial of detained defendant İnci Çalışkan and undetained Ömer B. started at Tekirdağ 3rd High Criminal Court. While Çalışkan did not attend the hearing, Ömer B. and the families and lawyers of the parties were present. İnci Çalışkan's failure to attend the hearing was recorded in the court record as 'Could not be brought due to workload'.
At the hearing, 'Premeditated murder'. Ömer B., who was tried without arrest for abetting the crimes of 'looting' and 'damaging property', said in his defense: "I do not accept the crimes charged against me. I have nothing to do with these events. We had a romantic relationship with İnci Çalışkan that started at the end of 2019. This relationship lasted 3-4 months. I did not know that he was married, but when I found out that he was married, I ended our relationship. We borrowed money from each other several times. After our relationship ended, for 5 years "We did not meet with İnci Çalışkan. Because she said that the child was my child, she was asking for money from me, saying that the child was sick. I do not know Binnaz Eriş, who is the aunt of İnci Çalışkan, and I have nothing to do with the incident in question. I offer my condolences to the family of the victim. I am also a victim like them."
'I LEARNED ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP AFTER THE EVENT'
İnci Çalışkan's wife C.Ç. He said, "I do not know Ömer B.. I learned about their love affair during the police statement after the incident. I know Binnaz Eriş. We used to go to his house. I work in the municipality, I went to work in the morning. I have no information about the incident."
Asked about the money that İnci Çalışkan's wife sent to her account after the incident, C.Ç said, "In the days before the incident, my wife İnci Çalışkan told me that her father owed money, so she asked for money from our family's gold savings. So I transferred the gold from our family account to İnci Çalışkan's account. She did not give it to her father, and then I transferred money to my wife's account by withdrawing money from several banks. She told me that the money she sent on the day of the incident was money from our gold."
İnci Çalışkan's friend D.B., who was heard as a witness in court, said, "We met İnci Çalışkan in 2015, our children were in the same class. I met Ömer B. through İnci Çalışkan. I met face to face once, other than that, I know as much as İnci Çalışkan told me. İnci Çalışkan told me that Ömer B. was her boyfriend. After a while, İnci Çalışkan told me that Ömer B. was threatening her. When İnci got pregnant, Ömer B. "She was threatening to call your husband and family and tell them that the child is mine, that's what İnci told me," she said.
'I WANT HIM TO BE PUNISHED IN THE HEAVIEST MANNER'
Serkan Eriş, the son of the murdered Binnaz Eriş, said, "Inci Çalışkan is my aunt's daughter, she was someone who was constantly entering and leaving my mother's house. I don't know whether İnci knew what was or wasn't happening in my mother's house. May God not let anyone experience this incident we experienced as a family. I want them to be punished in the most severe way on behalf of myself and my family."
At the hearing, it was decided to continue the detention of İnci Çalışkan and to continue the judicial control conditions for Ömer B.. The hearing was postponed to February 4, 2027.
