04.03.2025 15:01
After informing her friend that she went to Belgrad Forest in Istanbul, personal belongings and a mobile phone belonging to Ece Gürel, who has been missing since then, were found during the search and rescue operations initiated in Belgrad Forest.
Ece Gürel, who left her home in the Gültepe neighborhood of Kağıthane on Sunday afternoon and sent a message to her friend that she was going to Belgrad Forest, has not been heard from since.
SEARCHING FOR 2 DAYS It has been learned that Gürel is a landscape architect, and upon her friend's report, many search and rescue teams, including AFAD and AKUT, started search operations in Belgrad Forest yesterday. Her family, who filed a missing person report with the police regarding Ece Gürel, also came to the area to follow the search efforts. Teams are continuing their search operations with specially trained dogs.
SEARCHING IN THE POND Starting from the morning hours, the underwater search and rescue team affiliated with the İBB also joined the search efforts. The team that arrived at the pond conducted a surface search and then performed a dive to scan the bottom. Gürel's husband, Sezer Gürel, who was in the area, also observed the operations.
CELLPHONE AND PERSONAL BELONGINGS FOUND While the search operations for landscape architect Ece Gürel continue, her personal belongings and cellphone were found in the forest.
MESSAGES REVEALED It has been determined that Gürel was messaging with her friends in England via social media and sharing photos from Belgrad Forest, and her last messages have also come to light.
Last photos sent by Ece Gürel to her friend living in England "I GOT LOST" Gürel, who messaged her friend saying, "It got crowded here, I couldn't find the main place," was found to have written "I got lost." It was also recorded that Gürel, who was determined to have sent another photo, wrote, "I sat down, my soul is left behind."
Her friend wrote, "You did well, Gürel. I also went to the market. You're great, dear," but it was determined that Gürel's message "I got lost" was not seen, and her friend messaged, "I just saw that you said you got lost, isn't your navigation on your phone?"
THEY APPEARED ON MÜGE ANLI'S SHOW The family of Ece, who went missing 2 days ago, rushed to Müge Anlı's studio, worried about their daughter's life.
The father, Muharrem Koçoğlu, on the program Müge Anlı ile Tatlı Sert, stated, "Something may have happened to her. I can't think of anything else. She would never ignore her phone. She left home saying she was going for a walk in the forest. When she asked her husband, 'Are you coming?' he said, 'I'm tired, you go,' because he had worked the day before. She left to go for a walk in the forest around noon. My wife also called. She told her mother, 'I'm going to the city forest, I need to clear my head.' We called until 6. We called her husband, went to the police station, reported it. We started searching..."
"THEY MADE HER WRITE A RESIGNATION LETTER AND PUT IT ASIDE" The father, Gürel, who said, "She has been married for 8 years, has no children. She works as a secretary in a law office," stated that his daughter resigned after experiencing problems, saying:
"They asked for her written resignation, they said, 'Come back to work again.' They made her write a resignation letter and put it aside. She has been working for 10 years, she might be a bit upset about that. We also asked, 'Why did you resign?' This is the first time she has gone missing. She is a social person, she can express herself in every way."
SHE COMPLAINED ABOUT HER HUSBAND TO HER MOTHER The mother, Gülşen Gürel, expressing her fear by saying, "Only other things come to my mind. Did someone do something?" stated that her daughter is not someone who would harm herself. The mother Gürel noted that her daughter received a reaction from her husband for resigning and that the two had quite a few arguments, saying that Ece told her, "He ate me!"