Olcay Kılavuz denies 'Sinan Ateş' claims: 'I have no statement'

Olcay Kılavuz, a former MHP Mersin deputy and a key figure in the murder of former Idealist Hearths President Sinan Ateş, was alleged to have spoken out shortly before July 1, the date of the first hearing in the case.

According to behind-the-scenes information reported by TGRT Haber Ankara Coordinator Ahmet Sözcan, Olcay Kılavuz spoke out and called on the prosecutor's office and the court to take his statement.

"LET THE COURT SUMMON ME"

According to the report, Kılavuz made a call through people very close to him, stating, "Let the prosecutor's office and the court summon me. Let them hear me. I am ready to answer the questions directed at me. I am ready to tell what I know."

"I SPOKE OUT OF CURIOSITY"

Regarding Tolgahan Demirbaş, one of the detainees in the case, Kılavuz said, "I spoke with Tolgahan Demirbaş, but I was not aware of this incident. I did not know he was one of the parties involved in this matter. I spoke with him after the incident occurred, but I did so out of curiosity."

The MHP member added, "If there are tape recordings, if Tolgahan Demirbaş is being wiretapped, and if the conversations I had with him were recorded, then those tapes should be disclosed."

'DO NOT SPEAK' INSTRUCTION

When asked why he had not testified or made a statement until now, Olcay Kılavuz said that he had been advised and instructed on the matter. Kılavuz stated that he was told, "Your name is not even in the file, why would you testify?" and that he was simultaneously instructed to remain silent.

Olcay Kılavuz used the expression, 'If this is a crime, let me go and serve my time.'

"DO NOT EVEN OFFER CONDOLENCES"

Kılavuz, who said he wanted to call Ayşe Ateş, stated that he was given the instruction, "Do not even offer her condolences."

Kılavuz also stated that Tolgahan Demirbaş was detained not in his own home, but in front of his home. He admitted that when the police came to take him, Demirbaş initially resisted and did not want to surrender, but that he handed Demirbaş over to the police after learning that he was involved in the Sinan Ateş murder.

Expressing that his own family was also saddened by the murder of Sinan Ateş, Kılavuz said his family also cried, saying, "It is a pity, it is a sin, why did they kill him?"

DENIAL FROM OLCAY KILAVUZ

Sözcan stated that the information he provided today was 'behind-the-scenes' and said the following:

"As I said in the broadcast today, I received the behind-the-scenes information I shared from circles very close to Olcay Kılavuz. In other words, as some news sites have reported, there is no question of Olcay Kılavuz giving a direct interview.

I submit this to the public's information..."

Responding to the allegations, Olcay Kılavuz used the following expressions in a statement on X:

"I have no interview or statement made with Ahmet Sözcan or any other journalist. I hereby inform the public that I will resort to legal means against those who make false and fabricated news, and that these character assassins will be held accountable before the judiciary."

FROM THE INDICTMENT

In the indictment prepared by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office regarding the Sinan Ateş murder, Ateş's wife Ayşe Ateş and Selman Bozkurt, who was with him at the time of the incident, are listed as "complainants," and 22 people are listed as "defendants."

The indictment requests aggravated life imprisonment for defendants Eray Özyağcı, Vedat Balkaya, and Suat Kurt for the crime of "premeditated murder," and 13 to 20 years in prison each for the "attempted premeditated murder" of complainant Selman Bozkurt; it also requests aggravated life imprisonment for Çep and Tolgahan Demirbaş for instigating the murder.

It was also requested that Özyağcı be sentenced to 1 to 3 years in prison for "possession and carrying of an unlicensed firearm," and that Demirbaş be sentenced to 3 to 7 years in prison for "unlawfully obtaining personal data in a chain manner."

The investigation into the other 17 people out of the total 39 processed in relation to the incident, who have been issued travel bans, continues in a separate file.