06.11.2026 16:42
While Arif Sefa Özdemir, who cold-bloodedly murdered 8 people in Afyonkarahisar over a debt dispute and vehicle hijacking, was arrested and sent to prison, an interview from two years ago emerged in which the killer praised the peace and solidarity in his village.
After Arif Sefa Özdemir, who spread terror by slaughtering 8 people in Afyonkarahisar, was arrested and sent to prison by the court where he was tried, an interview he gave two years ago about village services has come to light.
Arif Sefa Özdemir, the perpetrator of armed attacks across Afyonkarahisar that left 8 dead and seriously wounded people behind and caused outrage, was arrested by the court he was brought before after procedures at the police station. The chilling details in the suspect's statement and his remarks about village life 2 years ago revealed the scale of the incident.
HE STARTED THE MASSACRE BECAUSE OF A COMBINE HARVESTER PURCHASE
According to the suspect's statement, the savagery began with a debt dispute stemming from the purchase and sale of a combine harvester. Özdemir stated that after the combine harvester he bought last year for 40 thousand euros burned in the field, he had a feud with Ahmet Uzel over the amount of debt, and that on the day of the incident he put his rifle and cartridge bucket in his vehicle and went to the meeting point. Özdemir confessed that he lured the people he met to the countryside of Ayazini village and trapped them, using these words: 'I blocked their path with my vehicle in a way that would prevent them from escaping. I pulled up right next to the vehicle, aimed at the heads of Numan in the front and the person next to him to kill them, and fired 2 shots. Then I fired at the person in the back. When I saw him move, I fired 1 more shot and made sure he was dead.'
HE SHOT THOSE WHO REFUSED TO HAND OVER THEIR VEHICLES IN THE HEAD AND ROBBED THEM
After the first murders, the suspect, who continued to spread terror by raining bullets on drivers whose path he blocked in order to change vehicles along his escape route:
- Kıyır Village road: He shot and killed Seydi Ahmet A. and Satı A., who did not want to hand over their vehicle, and seized their vehicles.
- Driver he had a scrape with: He massacred İsmail Ş., the driver of the vehicle he lightly touched on the road, by shooting him in the head after he said he would call the police.
- City center: He seriously wounded Sevgi P., who did not give her vehicle, by shooting her in the head.
HE STOPPED THE TEACHERS' VEHICLE AND...
The suspect, who stopped a vehicle containing three women near Yukarıtandır village in İhsaniye district, described the horror in his statement as follows: 'I told the person who got out that I had killed many people and that I needed the vehicle to escape. The other two people did not get out. First I counted down from 10, then from 5. When I saw that they did not get out and did not leave the phone, I aimed at both of them separately and fired, killing them.'
HIS INTERVIEW FROM 2 YEARS AGO HAS EMERGED
The statement made by Arif Sefa Özdemir, who cold-bloodedly massacred 8 people, 2 years ago about the work of the Bozhüyük Mukhtarship came to the agenda. It was determined that Özdemir, who spoke about the peace in the village in his interview, used the following words: 'Thanks to our mukhtarship, our village received 4-5 years of service in 6 months. Unity and solidarity formed in the village. The services provided in Bozhüyük are very nice. Our villagers are peaceful and happy.'