Details emerge in murder committed by village head who ran a nightclub: He killed the woman he impregnated

According to the information obtained, the female corpse found following a report by citizens who went to the dam to take photographs was identified as belonging to Bahar Aksüt, who worked at a nightclub in Tufanbeyli. The investigation determined that the young woman had been stabbed 8 times before being thrown into the dam.

Gendarmerie teams deepening the investigation revealed that the suspect in the murder was 44-year-old Mustafa Arıkan, the village head of Yeni Cami Neighborhood, who is married and a father of 2 disabled children. It is alleged that there was a romantic relationship between Arıkan and Aksüt, and that the young woman was 7 months pregnant from this relationship. It was claimed that the village head's family did not want the baby upon learning of the situation, and that Arıkan pressured Aksüt to have an abortion. The murder was determined to have been committed on the night of February 22. It is alleged that Arıkan, along with his friend Vural Ö., went to the Elbistan district of Kahramanmaraş, picked up Bahar Aksüt and her friend Kader K. (25), and brought them to Tufanbeyli. Later, while Kader K. and Vural Ö. (37) stayed at the house, the village head took Bahar Aksüt and drove her to the edge of the dam at Kürebeli Plateau. There, Arıkan demanded that the young woman abort the baby, and when he received a negative response, he became enraged and stabbed the 7-month-pregnant Aksüt 8 times, killing her.

"He broke the ice to throw the young woman into the dam so the body wouldn't be found"

After killing the young woman, the village head attempted to throw the body into the dam so it would not be found. However, he could not throw it because the dam had frozen due to the cold. Upon this, he took a sledgehammer from the vehicle, broke the ice, and threw the young woman into the dam. Later, he returned to the house where Kader K. and Vural Ö. were. After a while, thinking the body might surface, the village head took Vural Ö. and Kader K. and went to the scene. When the village head checked the spot where he had thrown the body and saw that the young woman had not surfaced, he returned to Tufanbeyli.

It is alleged that the suspect, who also wanted to kill Kader K., who witnessed the murder, gave up on this after the young woman begged for her life.

Following the discovery of the body, gendarmerie teams took action and detained village head Mustafa Arıkan along with several other people connected to the incident. It was learned that Arıkan confessed to the murder during his interrogation and stated that Vural Ö. and Kader K. also knew about the incident. After their procedures at the gendarmerie, village head Mustafa Arıkan was arrested on charges of "intentional homicide," while the other two suspects were sent to prison on charges of "aiding and abetting."