26.03.2025 12:11
As the trial of the 8 defendants in the case related to the murder of Sinan Ateş began, Ateş's wife, Ayşe Ateş, did not attend the hearing. Ayşe Ateş stated, "I refuse to believe in the independence of the judiciary, to see once again the mocking gazes of well-connected suspects, and to trust in justice until my children stop crying, 'Mom, nothing is going to happen to you, right?'"
Some information regarding the President of the Old Ülkü Ocakları Education and Culture Foundation and Hacettepe University Faculty Member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sinan Ateş, who is accused of obtaining information before his murder and helping to hide those involved in the incident after the murder, is being discussed in the first hearing of the case opened against 8 people, including Ülkü Ocakları Deputy Chairman Burak Kılıç, Ankara Provincial Chairman Assistant Suat Yılmazzobu, former Çubuk Ülkü Ocakları President Gürsel Horat, and a police officer.
AYŞE ATEŞ ANNOUNCED SHE WILL NOT ATTEND THE HEARING Sinan Ateş's wife, Ayşe Ateş, stated that she would not attend the hearing at the Ankara 34th Criminal Court of First Instance held today, saying, "I refuse to believe that the judiciary is independent and that there is no law for the powerful, to attend the hearing that started at this very hour today, to once again witness the mocking smiles of the well-connected suspects in front of me, and to trust in justice until my two children stop crying, asking 'Mom, nothing will happen to you, right?'"
"I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THERE IS NO LAW FOR THE POWERFUL" In a statement on her social media account regarding the issue, Ayşe Ateş said, "I refuse to believe, to participate, to watch, to trust. I refuse to believe that Gürsel Horat, who obtained Sinan's flight information, Suat Yılmazzobu, who said 'We formed a team, they will shoot him in the head,' Commissioner Talha Atalay, who sent a note to Tolgahan Demirbaş involved in the murder, Burak Kılıç, who took photos of the house we lived in, Ahmet Yiğit Yıldırım, who was not even questioned despite it being confirmed that the hired killer was abducted with an official vehicle, and everyone whose involvement in this murder, committed in a despicable manner, cannot be exhausted by writing names, is not prosecuted in proportion to their involvement in the crime, that the phone locks of two suspects have not been opened for two years, that the testimonies of Sinan's closest friends were not referred to in the hearing, and that Sinan's murder in the middle of the street was attempted to be portrayed as an ordinary murder committed by two independent groups reduced to a matter of debt, I refuse to believe that the judiciary is independent and that there is no law for the powerful, to attend the hearing that started at this very hour today, to once again witness the mocking smiles of the well-connected suspects in front of me, and to trust in justice until my two children stop crying, asking 'Mom, nothing will happen to you, right?'