Marmaris'te O Gece: Mehmet Çetin

The Suspicious Death of a Presidential Bodyguard

İsmail Gülmez

The official account is short. The case file is 2,468 pages. They don’t describe the same night.

On the night of 15 July 2016 a presidential protection officer died, and the state explained how. The autopsy report, the crime-scene examination and the sole eyewitness’s statement — all in the same file — paint another picture. The book lays out the contradictions document by document, accusing no one.

Just three of the file’s contradictions:

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.
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.

…and many more in the file that were never asked.

43 documents · 2,468-page reasoned judgment · every line sourced and verifiable.