Zonguldak70 year old retiree in miner The defendants who were tried without arrest regarding the decapitation of Mustafa Keleş and his burial in a separate place from his body appeared before the judge.
According to the information obtained, the body of 70-year-old retired miner Mustafa Keleş was found in the forest in Dursunlar village of Çaycuma, with his head separated. As a result of the meticulous work carried out by the gendarmerie teams, Keleş’s head, which was thought to have been cut off with an axe, was found in a well approximately 300 meters away from his body.
Some suspects were detained in the incident, in which entrances and exits to the village were restricted and the statements of all suspects regarding the incident, as well as their fingerprints, were taken and matched with DNA samples. İbrahim K., who was detained for 8.5 months, was released at the hearing on May 18, 2023, considering the lack of concrete evidence and his health condition.
Zonguldak 1st High Criminal CourtIn the ongoing trial in Istanbul, 7 of the 9 undetained defendants who were tried on the charge of “qualified intentional murder” appeared before the judge. Relatives of the murdered Mustafa K. were also present at the hearing. The District Gendarmerie Commander was also heard as a witness at the hearing.
WitnessOne of them, Kemal T., said that he learned about the incident from his aunt and went home and told his family. Upon the question of the court committee, he explained that his father, Cihan T., who was on trial without arrest, had previously had an argument with the victim, Mustafa Keleş, about buying a house. Lawyer of the relatives of the deceased Mustafa Keleş; He said that they learned that DK, the daughter of the defendant İbrahim K., approached NA, one of the village residents, from behind and hit her on the head with a sledgehammer, even though there was no hostility, and that they wanted to emphasize that the family sneakily approached from behind and committed such actions.
On the day of the incident, the party’s lawyer said that there were witness statements indicating that İbrahim K. had burned mold, and requested the arrest of the undetained defendant, claiming that there was concrete evidence that he had committed the crime in question.
in prisonIbrahim K., who stated that he stayed for 8.5 months during this period, only the guard asked him for what crime he was in prison, said, “I told the guard that I was in prison for slander. None of the convicts or detainees in the ward asked me a question about why I was in prison.”
The unarrested defendant, İlyas A., did not accept the accusations against him, saying that everyone brought their animals to the place where the incident took place to graze.
The court postponed the hearing to July 10, 2024 to eliminate the deficiencies in the file and hear other witnesses.
