Marmaris'te O Gece: Mehmet Çetin

The focus of this study is the official account of the death of Mehmet Çetin, the presidential guard officer who was killed in Marmaris on the night of 15–16 July 2016. The findings set out in the Reasoned Judgment of the Muğla 2nd High Criminal Court (Case 2016/277, Judgment 2017/253) are examined by setting them against the forensic documents in the case file and against open-source data.

The book is built on establishing the material truth through evidence. The findings recorded by the judicial authorities are woven into the text with objective, chronological discipline, and are at the same time made available for comparison with the relevant criminal-laboratory reports, autopsy data, crime-scene records and witness statements in the file.

An attentive reader will notice the tangle of contradictions within the file itself: the distance between the area where the firefight is assumed to have taken place and the physical spot the material findings point to; that the bullet entry diameters do not match the calibre of the weapons said to have been used; the shifts in the witnesses' accounts over time; and the way the official timeline occasionally breaks against itself.

This study is a concrete map of an unfinished forensic investigation, of material evidence left unexamined, and of legal gaps documented by the state's own official reports. It is a reference for those who look for the truth beyond dismantled radios, darkened lights and reports that contradict one another on the autopsy table.