16.04.2026 20:53
Gökhan Ertok, who was detained in the investigation into the disappearance of Munzur University student Gülistan Doku, has been arrested. Ertok, who was dismissed from the police profession, claimed that the SIM card belonging to Doku was given to him by the close protection police officer of the then Tunceli Governor Tuncay Sonel, and that Sonel instructed him to delete important data from the WhatsApp conversations and social media messages on the card.
Gökhan Ertok, who was detained in the Gülistan Doku investigation, has been arrested.
The procedures at the gendarmerie and prosecutor's office for Gökhan Ertok, the dismissed police officer who was detained in the Gülistan Doku investigation and was found to have used Doku's SIM card for approximately 3 hours, 13 days after her disappearance, have been completed. Ertok, who was referred to the court, was arrested and sent to prison.
"TUNCAY SONEL ORDERED THE DELETION OF DATA" Ertok's statement at the prosecutor's office drew attention. According to the information obtained, Ertok claimed that the SIM card belonging to Gülistan Doku was given to him by Şükrü Eroğlu, the close protection police officer of the then Tunceli Governor Tuncay Sonel. Ertok also alleged that Tuncay Sonel instructed the deletion of important data from Gülistan's WhatsApp conversations and social media messages.
Gülistan Doku Ertok denied the accusations, stating that he did not delete any data on the SIM card. It was learned that the statement procedures of Erdoğan Elaldı, Süleyman Önal, and Savaş Gültürk at the Tunceli Courthouse are still ongoing.
THE INCIDENT The family of Gülistan Doku, a university student in Tunceli, who had not heard from their daughter since January 5, 2020, came from their hometown Diyarbakır to Tunceli and filed a missing person report with the police on January 6, 2020. Teams that interviewed the 21-year-old girl's friends and monitored her cell phone signals initiated a search. No results were obtained from the searches.