02.11.2026 12:33
Search efforts for 11-month-old baby Büşra, who went missing on October 10 in the Göndüren village of Sivas, have been ongoing for 53 days. No trace was found in the searches conducted by gendarmerie and AFAD teams using a tracking dog and a drone. In the investigation, six people, including the mother and father, were arrested following contradictory statements.
The search efforts for 11-month-old baby Büşra, who disappeared in Sivas, are being continued by gendarmerie and AFAD teams, but despite 53 days having passed, no trace has been found.
SIX PEOPLE, INCLUDING THE MOTHER AND FATHER, ARRESTED
In Sivas, on October 10, 2026, teams sprang into action after a report that the 11-month-old baby of E.B. (25), who was engaged in animal husbandry in the rural area of Göndüren village in the Divriği district, had disappeared. The investigation launched into the incident was expanded and family members were detained; after they gave contradictory statements, a total of 6 people, including the mother and father, were arrested. Following the report, the Provincial Disaster and Emergency Directorate and gendarmerie teams sprang into action and began efforts to search the terrain for traces of baby Büşra.
TEAMS CONTINUE THEIR WORK
The efforts continued without interruption around the village by AFAD, UMKE, Gendarmerie and other teams, together with a tracking dog and a drone, have yielded no results despite 53 days having passed. While the teams, unable to reach missing baby Büşra alive or dead, continue their work, the investigation into the matter continues.
HER SIBLINGS HAD CLAIMED THAT BÜŞRA HAD DIED
Meanwhile; while the search efforts continued, the mother gave successive different statements to the effect that the baby had been given to someone else in exchange for money, abducted and killed. The couple's four children, who had been taken under state protection, were re-interviewed accompanied by experts and sociologists. According to the children's accounts, on the day of the incident, the father Yusuf Balıkçı subjected the mother Elif Balıkçı, who was holding baby Büşra in her arms, to violence. With the father's severe blows, the mother fell to the ground with the baby in her arms and fainted. It was alleged that baby Büşra, who suffered a severe blow during this, lost her life.