02.02.2025 12:30
Famous singer Merve Özbey's husband, Kenan Koçak, and the 3rd Class Police Chief Mehmet Deniz Karakurt were detained in an operation held yesterday. It has been revealed that the person they assisted in fleeing abroad is Turan Yıldırım, one of the key figures of the Sarallar crime organization. Meanwhile, footage related to the escape organization has also been released.
The Istanbul Organized Crime Fighting teams carried out an operation in Edirne yesterday, during which famous singer Merve Özbey's businessman husband Kenan Koçak, as well as 3rd Class Police Chief Mehmet Deniz Karakurt, were detained.
THE PERSON THEY KIDNAPPED TURNED OUT TO BE A MEMBER OF THE SARALLAR CRIME ORGANIZATION It has been learned that the suspects are accused of facilitating a person's illegal exit from the country, and the identity of this person was revealed today.
It was learned that the person whom Koçak and Karakurt facilitated to escape abroad on January 15 was Turan Yıldırım, one of the key figures of the Sarallar crime organization, who had an arrest warrant against him from an operation conducted against the organization in Istanbul on December 28.
THEY TOOK HIM TO THE BORDER GATE IN A POLICE VEHICLE In the details of the investigation obtained by SABAH, it was revealed through the examination of security camera footage from a luxury site located in the Ataşehir district of Istanbul that Turan Yıldırım was dropped off at Ener Aktaş's house on January 14. On January 15, it was determined that a vehicle with the license plate 22 ACK 841, used by 3rd Class Police Chief Mehmet Deniz Karakurt, arrived at the site, where Ener Aktaş, Turan Yıldırım, and singer Merve Özbey's husband Kenan Koçak met. It was confirmed that Turan Yıldırım and Kenan Koçak got into the police chief's vehicle and left the site.
It was also reflected in the camera recordings that Ener Aktaş was following the vehicle used by Police Chief Mehmet Deniz Karakurt. The vehicle with the license plate 22 ACK 841, used by the police chief, was determined to have crossed to the European side using the North Marmara Highway around 14:30, continuing from the Kınalı area and using the E84 highway, passing through Tekirdağ, Malkara, and Keşan, heading towards the İpsala Land Border Gate, as identified by the License Plate Recognition System (PTS) cameras.
It was determined that the vehicle with the license plate 34 MOP 459, driven by Ener Aktaş, also headed towards the İpsala Land Border Gate following the other vehicle. The two vehicles were recorded passing through 19 cameras within the PTS as they headed to the İpsala Border Gate in Edirne, and it was confirmed that Ener Aktaş and singer Merve Özbey's husband Kenan Koçak exited from İpsala around 17:33 in the vehicle with the license plate 34 MOP 459.
It was determined that Kenan Koçak returned to Turkey on the same day at 20:31, while Ener Aktaş entered through the İpsala Border Gate with a foreign license plate vehicle two days later. It was learned that the interrogation of the three suspects detained by the Istanbul Police Department's Organized Crime Unit is ongoing.