Caught while driving with the body: Footage of the femicide in Eyüpsultan has emerged!

The incident occurred in Sultangazi at around 16:30. According to allegations, an argument broke out between Engin Çelik and Ayşe Çelik, who were in the process of getting a divorce. During the argument, the man shot and killed his wife in the vehicle. Engin Çelik was then caught following a tip-off while he was attempting to take the body to a forest by placing it in the trunk of his car. While the interrogation of the suspect, who was taken to the Public Security Branch of the Istanbul Police Department after his initial statement, continues, Ayşe Çelik's lifeless body was brought to the Forensic Medicine Institute morgue following an examination. The woman's family and relatives arrived in front of the Forensic Medicine Institute morgue to receive information. It was learned that Ayşe Çelik's funeral will be buried in her hometown of Şanlıurfa after the autopsy is performed.

Meanwhile, footage reflected on a mobile phone showing the moments Engin Çelik got into his white vehicle after the murder has emerged.

In the footage, Engin Çelik is seen walking around outside the vehicle with the driver's door open, holding a pistol and talking on his mobile phone.

The person filming the footage says on the recording that the driver of the vehicle was killed with a pistol.

“AYŞE HAD BEEN RECEIVING CONSTANT THREATS FROM HER HUSBAND FOR A YEAR, OR EVEN LONGER”

Stating that Ayşe Çelik had been receiving threats from her husband for more than a year, her close friend Zeliha Çetik said, “Today in Istanbul, a working mother, a mother who wanted to look after her child by working hard and struggling, a mother who was fighting for her life, was murdered by her husband. We are very sad. Our pain is immense. Ayşe had been receiving constant threats from her husband for a year, or even longer. She was running away from her husband. It was as if they were not living in the same house.

They would reconcile for a period and then distance themselves for a period. She was helpless and alone. I am not sure, but our suspicions were that her husband used ‘substances,’ based on Ayşe’s accounts. She would talk about his abnormal behaviors. He was constantly using violence. Ayşe was a woman who was constantly beaten. She was a mother with no social life. She has a 5-year-old daughter. I don't know how to describe my pain. I have known her for 10 years. We worked together, we put in effort together, we ate at the same table.

Because she had separated from her husband, we lived in the same area. For a period, we also worked together at the same workplace. She had to keep her phones turned off constantly. I last spoke to her on the phone 6 months ago. Today, in line with the news I received from the internet, I researched it thinking, ‘It might be a name similarity. Maybe it’s not Ayşe,’ and learned that it was my friend.

The funeral will go to Şanlıurfa. Ayşe’s family will come, they will take the funeral and go to Şanlıurfa. Let women not die. Women, mothers must live. No woman deserves to be murdered, she does not deserve violence. How many more women will die?

Ayşe’s only struggle was against her husband’s alcohol use. She would say, ‘Quit alcohol, and I will reconcile with you.’ Ayşe was a woman who worked but never even saw her own salary card; it was in her husband’s hands. She did not have economic security,” she said.

News Source : İHA