01.04.2025 17:10
Chilling details have emerged regarding the murders of sisters Fatma and Gülcan Alıç, who were determined to have been killed 19 years after they went missing in Kahramanmaraş. The indictment revealed that Behçet Yediminareli, who was in prison at the time, wrote letters expressing his desire to kill Gülcan Alıç, with whom he had lived, and sent them to the defendant, who was not in custody, along with newspaper clippings related to femicides.
The Alıç family applied to the police in April last year, stating that their daughters Fatma and Gülcan went missing simultaneously in 2005 and that they had not heard from them since, asking for help. The police, in their investigation, found no evidence that the missing sisters were alive. The Homicide Bureau of the Public Security Department established a special team, considering that Fatma and Gülcan Alıç may have been victims of murder.
SPECIAL TEAM SUSPECTED 2 OUT OF 100 PEOPLE
The special team, in its investigation, determined that the missing sisters had not had any transactions with any official institution, especially health organizations, and interviewed approximately 100 people, including relatives and friends. During the interviews, the special team became suspicious of the actions of Behçet Yediminareli, with whom Gülcan Alıç lived in a religious marriage, and her cousin Mevlüt Doğan.
4 PEOPLE WERE DETAINED
After 7 months of technical and physical surveillance, it was determined that the missing sisters had been murdered, and according to the HTS records of the cousins, the murders were committed on March 30, 2005. Mevlüt Doğan was detained on November 6, 2024. In his interrogation, Doğan confessed to his crime, stating that he and Behçet Yediminareli strangled Gülcan and Fatma Alıç and buried them in the garden of a vineyard house in Sarıkaya Neighborhood. Following the confession, on November 7, 2024, Behçet Yediminareli, Y.K. with whom he lived in a religious marriage, and A.K. (42), the sister of Y.K., were detained. Bones belonging to the sisters were also found during the excavation at the location indicated by Mevlüt Doğan. While Behçet Yediminareli and Mevlüt Doğan were arrested, Y.K. and A.K. were released under judicial control.
HE COMMITTED MURDER AFTER GETTING OUT OF PRISON
As a result of the investigation, a case was opened at the 4th Heavy Penal Court against 4 people, demanding aggravated life imprisonment. The indictment detailed the events. Accordingly, Behçet Yediminareli, who was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor, was released from prison on March 16, 2005, and on March 30, he took Gülcan and her sister Fatma Alıç to the vineyard house and tied their hands and feet. He then brought his cousin Mevlüt Doğan to the vineyard house and asked Doğan to interrogate Gülcan Alıç to find out if she had deceived him while he was in prison. Mevlüt Doğan interrogated Gülcan Alıç, but when she did not speak, he strangled her to death.
HE ALSO KILLED HER SISTER TO LEAVE NO WITNESSES
Behçet Yediminareli attempted to strangle Fatma Alıç, saying, "Let's not leave any witnesses." When Fatma Alıç resisted, Behçet Yediminareli strangled the woman with a steel wire clothesline. After the murders, Yediminareli told the neighbors in the neighborhood that Gülcan and Fatma Alıç had left home with their children.
"EVERY TIME I ASKED ABOUT GÜLCAN, HE BEAT ME UNTIL MY BONES BROKE"
The 7-page indictment also included the statement of F.Y., who is Behçet Yediminareli's legally married wife but lives separately. In her statement, F.Y. mentioned that on the night of the incident, Behçet Yediminareli brought Gülcan and Fatma's children home, saying, "Knowing that Gülcan was very fond of her children, I waited for the day she would return. I received messages from Gülcan's phone asking me to take care of the children and indicating that she would come back one day. However, after a while, I caught Behçet sending those messages from Gülcan's phone. After that, Behçet beat me. Every time I asked about Gülcan's fate, he beat me until my bones broke."
HE WROTE LETTERS FROM PRISON STATING HE WANTED TO KILL GÜLCAN
F.Y. also submitted letters that Behçet Yediminareli wrote to Y.K. from prison to the prosecutor's office. The indictment stated that in the letters Behçet Yediminareli wrote to Y.K., he mentioned that he would kill Gülcan Alıç, and he attached newspaper clippings related to femicides to the letters, indicating that Y.K. and A.K. incited Behçet Yediminareli by providing information about Gülcan Alıç and F.Y. The indictment also noted that A.K. and Y.K. were not at the crime scene during the murder but had incited the crime due to their provocative actions before the incident and their actions to conceal evidence afterward, and they should be tried for the same crime as the other defendants. The defendants, who will be tried for aggravated life imprisonment, will appear before the judge in the coming days.