11.04.2026 00:11
Mehmet Yavuz Baş, the father of model Aslı Baş, who suspiciously died in Bodrum, Muğla in 2010 and whose case was reopened following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the ruling, stated that during the trial process, messages on his daughter's phone were deleted, some witnesses were not heard, and it was determined that the cameras at the crime scene were dismantled. Father Baş noted that the court ordered the deleted messages on the mobile phone to be retrieved and examined, and the phone was sent to Istanbul for this purpose.
On July 21, 2010, in the Yalıkavak neighborhood of Bodrum, Muğla, the incident occurred where Aslı Baş, the 2003 Turkey Model Queen, fell from a 6.5-meter terrace at a villa owned by businessman Ahmet Bayer and lost her life.
In the case seen at the Muğla 1st Heavy Penal Court, which lasted 11 years, after the 1st Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation overturned the acquittal decision on August 5, the file was re-examined, and the defendants appeared before the judge once again in recent months, with the hearing postponed to June 4, 2026.
CAMERAS AND MESSAGES WILL BE EXAMINED
The grieving father, Mehmet Yavuz Baş, who stated that the messages on his daughter's mobile phone were deleted and the cameras at the scene were dismantled, noted that the phone was sent to Istanbul for the deleted messages to be retrieved and examined by the court's decision. Baş said, "The Court of Cassation overturned the acquittal decision of the other party. Our court will continue again on June 4. There are some deficiencies. Witnesses who were not heard, cameras that were dismantled and lost. The messages on the child's phone have been deleted. A technical examination will be conducted to re-examine and investigate these."
"IT MADE ME VERY SAD..."
The father Baş expressed that it saddened him that the deficiencies seen by the Court of Cassation were not noticed by the court for 11 years, saying, "It made me very sad that the deficiencies during the 11-year trial were seen by the Court of Cassation but not by the court. In an 11-year trial, the dismantling of cameras, the deletion of messages on the phone, and the failure to hear witnesses are deficiencies that the Court of Cassation sees and finds it necessary to overturn the acquittal decision. Why didn't the Muğla 1st Heavy Penal Court see this for 11 years? Someone calls 112 and says, 'Someone fell from the stairs here, and their head is bleeding.' So how did that person jump or fall from those stairs, from a height?" he expressed.
“THE EXPERT REPORT SAYS THERE WOULD NOT BE SUCH A FALL”
Emphasizing that the expert report stated that there would not be a normal fall, father Baş said, "Witnesses say she jumped. The way of falling was examined by mathematics and physics professors from the Middle East Technical University, and the expert report was given on how she could or could not jump from here and where she would fall. It says that there would not be such a fall. In other words, the child falls, gets injured on the head, and death is expected. It does not happen; she is taken up and thrown. Anyone would interpret it this way. Before calling 112, other people are called, and then 112 is called for help. The ambulance comes afterward. I do not understand if it was expected for this child to die there during that time."