15.12.2025 17:05
The fate of Emine Yıldırımcan, who went missing at the age of just 4, has once again come to the forefront of Turkey's agenda nearly 30 years later on the program "Müge Anlı ile Tatlı Sert." The allegations raised against her stepfather have left many in shock. Ercan Yılmaz's daughters claimed that their father sexually abused Emine and dismembered her using a bead-making machine. Yılmaz's daughter, who joined the broadcast, recounted how the events unfolded.
The fate of Emine Yıldırımcan, who went missing at the age of 4, was brought back to the agenda approximately 30 years later on the program Müge Anlı ile Tatlı Sert. New claims regarding little Emine, who disappeared in 1995, created a significant stir, especially with the mention of the "mortar machine" during the program.
Emine Yıldırımcan's cousin and uncle applied to the program to learn what happened to the little girl. While the family wishes for the long-standing uncertainty to end, contradictions in the case file and new witness statements led to the case being revisited.
According to the family's account, Raziye Tanrıkulu married Ercan Yılmaz in a religious ceremony after separating from her biological father and moved into Yılmaz's house with Emine. It was noted that the little girl's disappearance occurred after this process.
Family members stated that suspicions regarding the little girl's disappearance were focused on Ercan Yılmaz at that time, but no concrete conclusions were reached.
"THE CHILD STARTED TO CRY"
The most striking claims in the case emerged with statements that surfaced years later. Müge Anlı conveyed the children's statements about Yılmaz as follows:
"My father killed 4-year-old Emine too. Because he had abused her as well. The child started to cry. After abusing her, he killed the child. The mother came home late at night. She wanted to see her child, and you said, 'I already had a hard time putting her to sleep, don't go inside.' You locked the child in the room. The mother did not see the child. They say my father dismembered her into small pieces in the mortar machine and then threw her away."
"MY FATHER KILLED EMİNE AND DISMEMBERED HER"
After conveying the children's statements, Müge Anlı turned to Yılmaz and said, "What more can they tell? This is the claim of your daughters; the claim of three daughters. What did you do to this child?"
In the following minutes, Yılmaz's daughter joined the program via phone. Speaking about the issue, she made the following claims:
"All my statements are there. I find it hard to speak. This man sells women inside the house. I witnessed all of this. I saw what happened to Emine right in front of my eyes. I was 6-7 years old back then. I am 37 years old now. My father killed Emine. He dismembered her. I saw it with my own eyes. He beat Emine to death. He sent my little brother and Raziye Hanım somewhere. I slept in the same room with that child. In the early morning, he took the child from my side. I pretended to be asleep. There was a sawdust room in our room because he made mortars. He dismembered the child. He threw the knives into the toilet hole. When he saw that I was watching him, he called me to the broadcast. He said to me, 'You saw everything anyway.' He said, 'I will go, and when I come back, I will do the same to you, but with one piece missing.' He quickly took his identity and left. He threw Emine's parts into the sawdust. Sawdust absorbs blood. I collected the pieces one by one from it. I was afraid he would come and torture us. I put the pieces in a suitcase. My brother was with me. We carried the suitcase to the trash container."