07.05.2025 19:30
In the Bergama district of İzmir, Murat Paçalı was found dead hanging from a tree in front of his house, along with his girlfriend, who is alleged to be a foreign national. An investigation has been initiated regarding the incident, and it has been learned that Paçalı's wife, Gülsüm Paçalı, also committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling in the same house eight months ago.
In the rural Zağnos neighborhood of Bergama district in İzmir, two people who came to fetch water from the garden of a house owned by 45-year-old Murat Paçalı saw two people, one of whom was a woman, hanging from a mulberry tree.
FATHER OF TWO FOUND HANGING FROM A TREE WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND
The situation was reported to the 112 Emergency Call Center. Upon notification, gendarmerie and medical teams were dispatched to the area. Medical teams determined that the two people hanging from the tree had lost their lives. The gendarmerie identified one of the two individuals, who were presumed to have committed suicide, as Murat Paçalı, the father of two and the owner of the house, and the other as his foreign national girlfriend with whom he had been living for some time.
IDENTITY INFORMATION IS BEING VERIFIED
After the investigations by the gendarmerie and the prosecutor at the scene, the lifeless bodies of Paçalı and his girlfriend were sent first to the morgue of Bergama Necla Mithat Öztüre State Hospital and then to the morgue of İzmir Forensic Medicine Institution for autopsy. The gendarmerie is working to identify the identity information of Paçalı's girlfriend, and it was reported that an investigation into the incident is ongoing.
8 MONTHS AGO, HIS WIFE ALSO COMMITTED SUICIDE BY HANGING HERSELF
In the investigation conducted by the gendarmerie regarding the incident, it was learned that Murat Paçalı, who was found hanging from a tree with his girlfriend, had a wife named Gülsüm Paçalı, who committed suicide by hanging herself with a rope from a hook in the ceiling of the same house last September.