It has been revealed that the person who ended their life by jumping from the bridge was businessman İlhan Arık

It has been determined that the person who stepped out of their vehicle and ended their life on the 15 July Martyrs Bridge in Istanbul yesterday around 14:00 was businessman İlhan Arık.

In a program he previously attended, Arık had recounted that his father was found dead at home, that he lost his three-month-old son, and that he was pulled alive from the rubble in the 1999 earthquake.

Speaking on a Haberler.com broadcast last year, Arık had used the following expressions regarding the difficulties he experienced:

Arık used the following expressions.

"My father was found dead at home. I grew up an orphan from a young age. I never knew my father; I always felt the absence of my father. I wore other people's clothes. I lost my son when he was 3 months old due to hospital negligence. I wanted a son so much. I never experienced a father's love, I wanted my son to experience it, but it didn't happen. I cried by the cradle for days. I was always all alone; that is how I fought my struggle. I have two daughters now. May God not let anyone experience the pain of losing a child. In the '99 earthquake, we were pulled from under the rubble in Sakarya, we lived in a tent for 3 months. At the age of 14, I pulled a lifeless body out from the rubble."