25.01.2026 15:40
Nurse Hazel Dırık Bağrıyanık, who left a 5-day-old baby in the intensive care unit disabled by assaulting him and for whom an arrest warrant was issued, surrendered in Afyonkarahisar. Bağrıyanık was arrested by the court she was brought before for the crime of "intentional injury" and sent to prison.
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 Bozoklar disabled by assaulting her in the intensive care unit when she was just 5 days old, has surrendered.
SURRENDERED IN AFYONKARAHİSAR
In the hearing held at the 10th Criminal Court of First Instance in Kahramanmaraş, nurse Hazel Dırık Bağrıyanık, who was decided to be tried in detention for allegedly applying violence to 5-day-old Deniz Esin Bozoklar in 2021, went to a police station in Dinar district.
ARRESTED
After surrendering to the police, Bağrıyanık was referred to the courthouse following her procedures at the police station. After the court held via the Audio and Visual Information System (SEGBİS), she was arrested for the crime of intentional injury and sent to prison.
THE 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 thought their daughter was born disabled, learned through an e-Government message that their baby had been left disabled due to nurse violence.
It created a public outcry 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, along with other footage included in the case.