24.10.2025 12:08
A woman who was assaulted in a haunted house she visited in Taksim recounted her terrifying experience. Melike Günay said, "They grabbed me by my throat, my neck, and my mouth, constantly bringing me down to the ground. They gave me electric shocks on my back. Even though I repeatedly stated that I didn't want this, they did it anyway. They ruined my life. I can't stay in the dark. I still tremble when I remember it."
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On October 19, Sunday, around 11:30 PM, 24-year-old Melike Günay experienced horror at a haunted house in the Katip Mustafa Çelebi neighborhood of Beyoğlu district in Istanbul, along with 6 friends. Here, Melike Günay and her group requested the staff not to touch them in the horror rooms. According to claims, the staff told the group that they would not be touched. Following this, 6 out of the 7 friends entered the horror rooms to spend time.
WENT TO THE HOSPITAL AND RECEIVED A REPORT OF ASSAULT A staff member from the haunted house who entered Günay's room grabbed the woman by her hair and neck and threw her to the ground. While on the ground, the staff member allegedly applied electroshock to the woman with a device he had. After the session, Melike Günay went to the hospital and received a report of assault.
SUSPECT TAKEN INTO CUSTODY Melike Günay, who stated that she was assaulted and electroshocked despite not wanting to be touched, filed a complaint against the establishment and the staff at the Taksim Şehit Haşim Usta Police Station. Acting on Günay's statement and security camera footage, the police from the B Region Directorate of Security Teams took the staff member Baran T. (18) into custody.
STAFF RELEASED, ESTABLISHMENT SEALED In his statement at the police station, Baran T. said that they informed customers that there would be contact before entering the room. Legal action was taken against him for 'intentional injury.' After the procedures were completed, Baran T. was released from the police station by the decision of the prosecutor's office. Meanwhile, the teams from the Beyoğlu Public Order Bureau and the Beyoğlu Municipality Zoning Directorate sealed the establishment where the incident occurred.
"HE DID IT DESPITE ME REPEATEDLY STATING I DIDN'T WANT IT" Melike Günay said, "We went there with 7 friends to have fun. We clearly stated that we should not be touched and that we did not want electroshock. After entering the play area, he wanted me to be alone and sent me to another room. After sending me to the room, he came to me and forcefully threw me to the ground, covering my throat, neck, and mouth, constantly pushing me down, giving me electroshock on my back. Despite me repeatedly stating that he should not touch me and that I did not want this, he did it. My back hurt a lot. After a while, I got very tired from struggling. I didn't even understand what was happening," she said.
"SOME PARTS OF THE VIDEO HAVE BEEN DELETED" Günay stated, "Previously, when we went to the haunted house, I thought we would be given tasks to fulfill, but on the contrary, there was constant contact and being pushed down. He wanted me to put my hands inside a round circle and then gave me electroshock again, and I was very tired. Some parts of the video have been deleted; they are completely gone," she said.
"I CAN'T STAY IN THE DARK, I AM STILL TREMBLING" After the incident, Günay expressed that she could not stay in the dark, saying, "Even while telling, my heart is still beating very fast. I can never know what to do or how to react. I still tremble when I remember. I can't stay in the dark. I never understood what happened or why they did these things. After a while, I just waited for it to end. I pushed him away and told him not to harm me, then I waited for a while. After that, he continued again. I wanted the game to end because I told him my heart was beating very fast. I told him, 'I will have a heart attack, enough, just let me go.' I asked him to end the game three times, and then he finally ended it. In the last part of the video, he again cornered me against the wall, squeezed my throat, held my neck, and repeatedly said, 'look at my face.' They completely deleted that part; it is completely gone. What we experienced after the incident was still pure horror. Threats, claims of not doing it, attempts to delete videos, and the things done to us. They made us live a nightmare," she stated.
"IT WAS A DELIBERATE ACT DONE ONLY TO ME" Melike Günay said, "Later, when we went downstairs, my friends didn't know that I had ended the game. I told them because they couldn't hear me at all. No harm was done to my friends; they were not approached. It seems like there was a deliberate act done only to me. In fact, some people even suggested that it could be my ex-boyfriend. When we went downstairs, I told them that I had ended the game. I said that he squeezed my throat. My friends reacted there, and we wanted to see the video. At first, they told us that there was a problem with the video. One of my friends, my sister, already saw that the video was deleted. Then, of course, there was chaos there. Someone came after a while. They gave us the video. They said something like, 'You wanted contact.' We said we didn't want contact; a little contact, medium contact, but it was very clear that this was not medium contact. After watching the video, they said, 'Yes, you are right, we apologize, this is not medium contact.' We wanted to call the police because we couldn't resolve the situation at that moment. Of course, it became a heated environment; they begged us not to call the police. They apologized, shopkeepers intervened, many people came and talked to each of us separately. Despite that, we called the police, talked, and explained our issue. Then some people from the other side tried to attack us. The staff member's sister spoke mockingly, saying, 'He squeezed your throat, held your mouth, what's wrong with that?' We already stated all of these and filed our complaint," she said.
"I WAS AFRAID OF DYING AT THAT MOMENT, IT RUINED MY LIFE" Günay said, "We also received a report of assault; we did everything we needed to do.
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They pressured me a lot. At least his family could have apologized, but his family came with an aggressive attitude instead. I am sure that the person who did this acted in a sadistic manner. He was probably someone who is not taken seriously outside, which is why he came to me with an attitude as if my horn was blowing constantly. He pressured me a lot. If he had backed off after the first contact, this situation wouldn't have escalated here after I warned him, but I told him repeatedly. At that moment, I was really afraid of dying. After a while, I said to myself, this must be real, I am living a reality. That's why this situation escalated, and when we first entered, I didn't like the way he looked at me; I had warned my friend that I didn't like the way he looked at me. I don't know, we will see when we watch the whole video. Actually, I felt like something was off, but I didn't know it would be this big. Right now, every night when I lie down, I think about what would have happened to me if I had stayed there a little longer. I can't stand in the dark; I am afraid of sudden movements. It was like he ruined my life. The person was initially taken for questioning, and he came out 15 minutes after I did. The business was closed and sealed, but later a friend of mine called the business, and they told us, 'We are already becoming popular this way; we had a similar incident five years ago, and it made us more popular, we had more people coming and going.' This shocked us even more. They said things like, 'We will open again after a while; it won't be a problem for us; we are a ten-year-old business, we won't stay closed for long.' They even kept writing, 'We will let you know when we open' and talked like that.
"I WANT A DETERRENT PUNISHMENT" Melike Günay said, "I want there to be a deterrent punishment. Of course, I cannot make that decision; the judiciary will decide, but at least it should be deterrent. Honestly, I think that in the future, it might seriously harm someone else's life. Because someone who does this in front of cameras could do anything to a person in a place where no one sees in the future. I have already been harmed; yes, my psychology was affected, I was assaulted there, but somehow I escaped, or they found me later, or I was able to ask for help. But in another place, a person's life could have been seriously harmed; I think I prevented that. It feels like I might have saved a person's life, to be honest. That's why I want him to receive a deterrent punishment; I don't have too many demands."
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