16.10.2026 20:13
In the murder of Ferit Marhan (45), who was found dead next to a parked car with a cleaver and knife in Samsun's Canik district on January 24, the indictment was accepted. Life imprisonment was sought separately for Gamze Sagamer, who surrendered to police and said she committed the murder alone, as well as for her husband Dursun Ali Sagamer and her son Aydın Sagamer, on charges of intentional killing. The three defendants will be tried at Samsun 3rd High Criminal Court.
An investigation into the killing of Ferit Marhan (45), who was found dead next to a parked car in the Canik district of Samsun, with a cleaver and knife, has been completed. The indictment prepared against the woman, her husband and her son, who were arrested in connection with the murder, was accepted. It was learned that the three defendants will appear before a judge at Samsun 3rd High Criminal Court in the coming days.
The incident occurred on the night of January 24, 2026, inside a parked car with license plate 55 ARH 593 on the Samsun City Hospital Road route in Düvecik Neighborhood of Canik district. During the examination at the scene, it was determined that the left door of the car was open and its engine was running. The lifeless body of Ferit Marhan (45) was found lying on his back on the asphalt next to the left door of the vehicle. It was determined that Marhan had numerous cutting and piercing instrument wounds in his head, neck and chest area, and that there were dense blood traces on the left front floor mat and body panels of the vehicle. During searches in the vehicle, a bloody pocketknife, a black T-shirt, a wooden stick, muscle relaxant creams, gas spray, a lighter, mobile phones and bloody tissues were seized.
SHE WENT WITH A CLEAVER AND DAGGER AND SURRENDERED
After the murder, Gamze Sagamer (38) went to the Irmak Şehit Davut Doğan Police Station with the cleaver and dagger she used in the incident and surrendered. In the investigation carried out after Sagamer claimed in her first statement that she killed Marhan alone, it was alleged that her husband Dursun Ali Sagamer (39) and her son Aydın Sagamer (23) were also connected to the incident.
HUSBAND AND SON ALSO ARRESTED
Teams examining security camera footage, HTS communication records and base station data investigated the movements of the three suspects before, during and after the incident. In the analysis reports included in the investigation file, it was stated that Ferit Marhan and Gamze Sagamer met in a vehicle before the incident and traveled together along the route.
It was recorded that Dursun Ali Sagamer's vehicle and Aydın Sagamer were moving around the scene and on the route to the residence at times close to the time of the incident. In the HTS records, it was also stated that the suspects made phone calls and sent messages among themselves, and that base station signals overlapped with the crime scene. The three suspects were arrested by the Samsun 2nd Criminal Judgeship of Peace, before which they were brought.
In the autopsy report prepared by the Samsun Group Directorate of the Council of Forensic Medicine, it was stated that there were 3 cut-crush wounds, 1 stab wound and 2 incised wounds on Marhan's body. It was reported that death occurred as a result of brain hemorrhage together with a skull fracture, spinal incision, major vessel injury and blood aspiration. In molecular genetic examinations carried out at the scene, in the car and on the crime tools, DNA profiles and fingerprints belonging to the deceased and the suspects were identified.
In her statement to the prosecutor's office, Gamze Sagamer, who recounted having had a relationship with Ferit Marhan in the past, claimed that the deceased constantly threatened and beat her. Stating that on the day of the incident Marhan came in front of her house and called her, and that she got into the vehicle taking a cleaver and knife with her, Sagamer declared that she committed the murder during an argument that broke out inside the vehicle. The indictment also included the contradictions between the suspect's initial statements to law enforcement and her statements to the prosecutor's office.
LIFE IMPRISONMENT SOUGHT FOR ALL THREE
In the indictment prepared by the Samsun Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and accepted by the court, life imprisonment was requested separately for Gamze Sagamer, Dursun Ali Sagamer and Aydın Sagamer for the crime of 'intentional killing' under Article 81/1 of the Turkish Criminal Code. It was also requested that the defendants be deprived of the exercise of certain rights under Article 53 of the Turkish Criminal Code.
For Gamze Sagamer, due to the dagger she used in the crime, imprisonment from 1 to 3 years and a judicial fine were also requested under Article 15/1 of Law No. 6136 for the crime of carrying or possessing knives or other instruments of a prohibited nature. It was learned that the trial of the three defendants will begin at Samsun 3rd High Criminal Court in the coming days.