Court in Istanbul on Friday blessings down Life sentence for CGB (identified with initials), convicted man of kill young Women with samurai sword in The city last year.
Architect Basak Cengiz was walking on The street in Atasehir district on Asian side of Istanbul where she was staying temporarily for a project When the aggressor showed up up. CGB started hitting her repeatedly with The sword was later arrested by the police. The defendant sought madness plea under the pretext of ‘Satan made Him does it”, while his mother who also He worked as his lawyer, and claimed that he had been suffering from mental problems since he was a child and refused treatment and medication in The past a few years.
However, expert witness report by the Board of the Ministry of Justice of Forensic Medicine found CGB sane. The court accepted the validity of the report in Friday session.
genghis family Repeatedly asked the court to issue “heavier” sentence for CGB while the victim mother Behan Cengiz questions ‘health reports’ of Alleged mental disorders of the defendant. “He totally understands everything we’re talking about here and it’s clear that he planned it murder. She told the court, urging judges to hand her over he never forgot any details down “Exemplary” rule. CGB, who attended the meeting via Video link from prison Where he was detained, he said he had “nothing to say” while his lawyers were seeking it reduce His punishment, claiming murder It was not “premeditated”.
Court refused plea He was sentenced to life imprisonment, which is the harshest punishment in Turkish laws that rules out Possibility of early release.
the accident that happened on November 9, 2021, renewed anger against The killing of women that kills dozens of spirits in Turkey all year. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, critic of permissive interpretation of laws on Domestic violence and women’s pesticides, have visited family last year To offer his condolences. Erdogan also king hosted The family and families of else women who They were killed by their hands of men over Iftar dinner last A week in the presidential complex.
