Gültekin

The elements of deliberately killing with monstrous feelings or causing torment did not exist in the murder of 27-year-old Pınar Gültekin, a local court has stated while announcing the reason behind the reduction of the jail term of the murderer Cemal Metin Avcı in the country's high-profile femicide case.

Gültekin went missing in the southwestern province of Muğla on July 16, 2020.

The father of Pınar Gültekin, who was brutally murdered by her boyfriend Cemal Metin Avcı two years ago, has voiced his anger towards the court's decision of decreasing the murderer's sentence based on an "unjust provocation discount."

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has joined the public anger by criticizing the "unjust provocation discount" a court has given in the case of Cemal Metin Avcı, the murderer of university student Pınar Gültekin.

Speaking at a conference on the law on June 23, Bozdağ highlighted that the issue of "unjust provocation discount" should be discussed.

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener has criticized the "unjust provocation discount" given in the case of Cemal Metin Avcı, the murderer of university student Pınar Gültekin.

"They encourage women killers, shame on all of them," Akşener said addressing her party lawmakers on June 22.

The murderer of university student Pınar Gültekin, Cemal Metin Avcı has been served with a reduced prison sentence of 23 years on the grounds of "unjust provocation" on June 20.

The 13th hearing of the case was held at the Muğla 3rd High Criminal Court.

Avcı stated that he was remorseful and said that he committed the murder alone.

Surprising developments in the case of Pınar Gültekin, a university student who was strangled to death and later dumped in a forest after her body was burned in the Aegean province of Muğla last year, have unfolded.

Five people were caught in the western province of Tekirdağ on Feb. 9 as they attempted to sell an oil painting said to have been drawn by the great Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Three journalists from daily BirGün face up to four years in prison on charges of "insulting the Turkish president" while a columnist from daily Taraf has testified on the same charge.