30.11.2025 17:57
Mehmet Övet, a 47-year-old man living in the Marmaris district of Muğla, is known among those around him as the "nine-lived man like a cat" due to the numerous accidents he has experienced since childhood. At the age of seven, Övet's heart stopped for the first time. Until his early retirement due to disability, he fell from a roof three times, was electrocuted twice, was shot unexpectedly, was trapped under a minibus, and flew off a motorcycle into a stream. People around him often say, "Aren't you dead yet?"
Mehmet Övet, a father of two daughters living in the Marmaris district of Muğla, is known as the 'nine-lived man' in his community due to the dozens of accidents he has experienced since childhood.
FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH DEATH AT THE AGE OF 7 Recalling his first encounter with death at the age of 7, he said, "I was around 7-8 years old, we used to dive under the ships coming from Rhodes at the Yacht Harbor. The mussel shells sticking to the boat's fins at a depth of 9 meters cut different parts of my body, my heart stopped. Citizens rescued me from 9 meters deep, and the doctor present there restarted my heart, and I immediately fled from there in shock."
Övet, who also mentioned that he fell headfirst to the ground while playing on the terrace of his family's house, which was 7 meters high and had no railings, stated that he opened his eyes in the intensive care unit of the hospital 4 days later.
STRUCK BY ELECTRICITY, FELL HEADFIRST ONTO THE CONCRETE FLOOR WHILE INSTALLING A SATELLITE DISH After not continuing his education after primary school, Mehmet Övet stated that he started working at an electrical company. In 1991, while trying to repair the electronic parts of an elevator, he was electrocuted. Despite being quickly laid on the ground, the young man lost his vital functions, but doctors managed to restart his heart once again, bringing him back to life. Övet humorously recounted, "They thought I was dead, and when I moved, they all got scared and ran away."
After recovering, Övet received training in the electronics sector and while trying to install a satellite dish in an apartment in the covered bazaar, he lost his balance and fell face down onto the concrete floor from a height of 9 meters. After his treatment, he returned to work. Eleven months later, while installing a satellite dish on the terrace of an apartment on Kordon Street, he fell headfirst onto the awning of a business on the ground floor and then onto the sidewalk when the rotten railing broke. After his body fractures healed, Övet was discharged and returned to work, but two years later, he was electrocuted again while checking an electronic device. With the help of his employee, Övet escaped the current and continued his life after a short treatment.
AFTER WORK ACCIDENTS AND TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, HE WAS ALSO HIT BY BULLETS After experiencing many traffic and work accidents, Mehmet Övet was shot by a master he had a dispute with at the meatball shop where he ordered lunch in 2008. Övet, who was hit by 15 bullets, had his vital functions restarted once again and spent 60 days in the intensive care unit of a private hospital. During the surgeries he underwent, 10 bullets were removed from his body, but he stated that he had to live with 5 bullets remaining in his groin for the rest of his life.
RETIRED DUE TO DISABILITY WITH A "79% DISABILITY" REPORT Due to the continuous misfortunes he faced throughout his life, Mehmet Övet was hit by a luxury passenger transfer minibus traveling at 110 kilometers per hour while returning home from work on his motorcycle in 2014. He suffered damage to his lungs, fractures in various parts of his body, brain edema, and had his intestine surgically removed. Once again losing his vital functions, the unfortunate electrician was brought back to life by health workers. After 78 days in the intensive care unit, Övet opened his eyes for the seventh time and received a "79% disability" report, retiring due to disability after this accident.
After the accidents and misfortunes he experienced, Mehmet Övet lost both his job and health, closing his shop and operating a corn stall on the beach. He mentioned that he fell into the stream in the bar street of Marmaris with his motorcycle and most recently received 8 stitches on his arm after being hit by a motorcycle traveling at 70 kilometers per hour.
PEOPLE SAY "AREN'T YOU DEAD YET?" Mehmet Övet also noted that people around him tease him by saying, "Aren't you dead yet? How many accidents is this?" He stated, "I consider what I have experienced not as misfortune but as luck. I am still alive, which means we still have bread to eat."