25.01.2026 09:32
Nurse Hazel Dırık Bağrıyanık, who left a 5-day-old baby in intensive care disabled by assault and for whom an arrest warrant was issued, surrendered to the police in Dinar district of Afyonkarahisar. Bağrıyanık's procedures at the police station are ongoing.
A new development has emerged in the horror that caused an uproar in Turkey, as seen in the images that surfaced in 2021 at the Neonatal Care Unit of Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University Health Application and Research Hospital. Nurse Hazel Dırık Bağrıyanık, who left 5-year-old Deniz Esin Boroklar disabled after assaulting her in the intensive care unit when she was just 5 days old, has surrendered.
SURRENDERED IN AFYONKARAHISAR
During the hearing at the Kahramanmaraş 10th Criminal Court of First Instance, nurse Hazel Dırık Bağrıyanık, who was decided to be tried in detention for allegedly committing violence against 5-day-old Deniz Esin Bozoklar in 2021, went to a police station in the Dinar district.
Hazel Dırık Bağrıyanık, who surrendered to the police, is undergoing processing at the police station.
FAMILY LEARNED ABOUT THE HORROR 3 YEARS LATER THROUGH E-GOVERNMENT MESSAGE
Deniz Esin Bozoklar, born on May 21, 2021, was placed in an incubator in the neonatal unit due to low birth weight. On May 31, 2021, after a nurse noticed a stillness in the baby, it was determined through the monitored camera footage that the baby was subjected to violence by nurse Hazel Dırık Bağrıyanık on May 26, 2021.
While the hospital management transferred the baby to a private hospital, Sema and Abdullah Bozoklar were not informed about the events that took place. At the private hospital, it was determined that Deniz Esin had both physical disabilities and cerebral palsy and epilepsy.
Three years after the incidents, in June 2024, a lawsuit was filed against nurse Hazel Dırık Bağrıyanık for "intentional injury" with a request for up to 3 years in prison. Until that day, the Bozoklar couple, who believed their daughter was born disabled, learned through an e-Government message that their baby had been left disabled due to nurse violence.
The public was outraged by the footage that entered the case file, showing that Hazel Dırık Bağrıyanık could not draw blood from the 5-year-old baby for 14 minutes, during which she applied violence by hitting the baby's head, and that the baby's leg was broken.