The goal in that accident was to leave Turkey as soon as possible!

In Eyüpsultan, on the evening of March 1, 2024, around 11:30 PM, a luxury car struck three ATV vehicles waiting on the side of the road due to a breakdown. Oğuz Murat Aci lost his life. The driver fled the scene. Four days after the accident, 12punto was the first to announce that the driver who caused the accident was 17-year-old T.C. and that he had been smuggled to Egypt by his mother, the author Eylem Tok. What happened on the evening of the accident that dominated Turkey's agenda after this news? Why did the mother choose Egypt to smuggle her son out? So, what was the power of the media in this accident? Will 17-year-old T.C. be extradited to Turkey? So, what happened on the evening of the incident...

The date was March 1, 2024. There were 10 children, aged between 14 and 17, in two vehicles, with 4 in one and 6 in the other. According to the children's statements, T.C. began picking up his friends one by one around 9:00 PM from a luxury residential complex in Kemerburgaz.

Four people got into T.C.'s vehicle. Six of his friends got into another vehicle. They left the luxury complex one after another and first went to a gas station. Both drivers were minors and did not have driver's licenses. While driving on the forest road, T.C. accelerated, overtook the vehicle in front of him, and entered a curve at a very high speed. Afterward, when he saw the 3 ATVs stopped due to a breakdown, he hit the brakes but could not stop. The vehicle, which hit the ATVs and 4 people, was only able to stop in an irrigation canal. Oğuz Murat Aci lost his life in the accident. Three people were also injured. The time of the report to 112 was recorded as 11:30 PM.

News agencies reported this accident. The news mentioned that it was a luxury vehicle. But no investigation had been conducted regarding the aftermath of the accident. That is when we saw the news and began to question who the luxury vehicle belonged to, and we started to push our news sources. Four days after the accident, on March 5, 2024, 12punto.com.tr readers were the first to learn that the driver who caused the accident was 17-year-old T.C. and that he had been smuggled to Egypt by his mother, the author Eylem Tok. After we stated in our report that his mother was the author Eylem Tok and his father was the aesthetic surgeon Bülent Cihantimur, and after it was published by other media news sites and on TV, it became a major topic of discussion.

This is where the power of the media was revealed once again. Following the reports, mother Eylem Tok stated that she would return and that she was in Egypt. A day later, it emerged that they had gone to the USA. The Ministry of Justice applied to the USA for extradition procedures. The accident, which the family wanted to keep quiet, became the focus of Turkey's agenda through the reports of 12punto.com.tr and journalist Mustafa Şekeroğlu.

News bulletins, news sites, and even newspapers have been providing updates on this accident every day for 2 weeks. So, what happened after the accident?

17-year-old T.C. called his mother, the author Eylem Tok, on the phone and told her he had been in an accident. Eylem Tok, who picked up her son from the scene of the accident with his friends, arrived home. According to police records, the accident occurred at 11:30 PM.

The mother and son made their escape plan very quickly. They arrived at the airport. They could not find plane tickets to the USA at that hour. The goal was to leave Turkey that night. And that is exactly what happened. They found seats on a plane going to Egypt and bought tickets there. If it hadn't been Egypt, it could have been another country. Because they had only one thought: to leave the country before the police could track them down. The luxury vehicle T.C. was driving was registered to a company. The police were only going to start working on the company-registered vehicle a day later. And that is exactly what happened. When the mother, taking her son with her, was dropped off at the airport by Ayşe Ceren Saltoğlu, an employee of Bülent Cihantimur, the time was 2:00 AM. In other words, they had entered the airport with their suitcases 2.5 hours after the accident.

During this process, the suitcase had been packed quickly and the escape plan had been put into action. When the clock struck 3:00 AM, Eylem Tok and her son T.C., who were processing their departure, flew to Egypt as of 4:30 AM. Hours after the accident, the Istanbul Police had identified the driver and had collected all camera recordings, including those from MOBESE cameras in the vicinity and on the route, gas station cameras, and airport camera footage, both before and after the accident, and had determined that the driver who caused the accident was 17-year-old T.C. It was even alleged that one of the children was the son of a media mogul, and this was reported. However, it turned out that this was not true and that he was the grandson of a tourism hotel owner, not a media mogul.

While judicial control was imposed on the father, Bülent Cihantimur, a travel ban was also issued. The Ministry of Justice applied to the USA for the extradition of T.C. and his mother, the author Eylem Tok. It is said that they cannot be handed over because they are citizens of that country. In this accident, we saw this once again: the power of public opinion and the media in an accident that dominated Turkey's agenda four days later.