The blood is elsewhere
Mehmet Çetin's blood — a near-certain DNA match — was found behind villa 1751, a spot no soldier set foot on that night and where no attack is recorded. Not at 1782.
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Boilerplate, documents, downloadable assets and contact for journalists covering the Kanlı Yalan series and its first book.
Kanlı Yalan (“Bloody Lie”) is an independent documentary book series that re-examines official accounts of deaths strictly through public forensic records. Each book takes a single case, grounds its findings in the court file, expert reports and autopsy records, and publishes facsimiles and online-archive links so readers can verify every document at its source.
The first book, “Marmaris’te O Gece: Mehmet Çetin” (“That Night in Marmaris”), examines a death on the night of 15 July 2016 by comparing the official narrative with the documents in the case file. This page gathers what the press may need about the book and the series in one place.
Fast facts
- Book
- Marmaris'te O Gece: Mehmet Çetin
- Author
- İsmail Gülmez
- Series
- Kanlı Yalan — 01
- Language
- Book: Turkish · Site: TR/EN/FR/DE
- Format
- Print + e-book
- ISBN
- To be assigned (KDP)
- Publication
- 15 July 2026
- Imprint
- Independently published (KDP)
- Documents
- 43
- Archive infohash
- 519ed8f98e962729d14b80bf59497378439c44b6
What the file shows
Three documents, one contradiction
The court accepted that Mehmet Çetin was shot in a firefight with soldiers at villa 1782. The physical and testimonial record in the file does not bear that out.
The autopsy contradicts its own record
The autopsy's finding of a "gunshot wound to the left knee with a fragment from a soldier's rifle" is contradicted by the post-mortem examination photos and video. No entry wound is marked on the left knee.
The only eyewitness gives a different hour
The sole eyewitness, İrfan Paksoy, tied the killing to men in military dress who arrived by helicopter at 00:00–00:30. The convicted defendants reached Marmaris around 03:00. The court never heard Paksoy — or any bodyguard — in person.
About the book
“That Night in Marmaris” compares, line by line, the official account of the death of a presidential protection officer on the night of 15 July 2016 with the forensic documents in the case file. The book is not a narrative of accusations; it shows the contradictions within the documents and between them.
Every document cited in the text appears as a facsimile in the book’s Documents section and in full on the kanliyalan.org archive.
What the documents show
Each point below links to a public document; the book’s argument is built on these records.
- Blood traces are not where the death is officially said to have occurred; the crime-scene report records them at a different location. /belge/olay-yeri-inceleme
- The autopsy report contradicts the post-mortem examination record of the same case. /belge/otopsi-raporu
- The sole eyewitness gives, in their statement, a time that differs from the official time of the event. /belge/murat-bayrak-ifade
- Every claim rests on the public case file, including the 2,468-page reasoned court judgment. /belge/gerekceli-karar
Downloadable assets
Press-cleared imagery and the brochure. Free to reproduce.
Verifiable archive of every document: Archive & verification
Use & permissions
The documents in the archive are public forensic records; they may be freely reproduced and mirrored. The book cover and series emblem may be used freely in coverage of the book and the series.
Each document is published with SHA-256 checksums and a minisign signature, so journalists can independently verify a document’s authenticity. Verification steps are on the Archive page.