A crime shakes Turkey … What happened in Istanbul?

In a mysterious crime that provoked widespread discontent in Turkey, where the city of Istanbul witnessed the murder of a university professor at her home in the Maltepe neighborhood.

According to Turkish media, the university professor, Eileen Sozer, was murdered at her home in the Maltbe neighborhood of Istanbul by a suspect, who claimed to be “her ex-boyfriend.”

The victim holds the post of Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Education at Eden University in Istanbul, and is considered one of the main lecturers in the education sector in Turkey, especially in the field of children’s education and training, and more recently in programs distance education, due to the circumstances imposed by the Corona pandemic.

In turn, the Turkish University of Eden issued a statement about the murder of the university professor in it, and said that this type of crime has been intensifying in recent years in the country, and its victims are women, the last of the which is Suzer.

The story began when the Sozer family informed the Turkish police that they were not answering phone calls or messages via the Internet, and then security authorities turned to the university professor in the Maltbe region.

Security authorities had to remove the doors to the victim’s home as they were locked and the smell of fire seeped from under the doors, only to be shocked by the incident of death after being able to enter. According to Turkish newspapers.

The killing was carried out by hitting the victim with a pointed object by the killer, and then the killer poured a “caustic” substance on the victim’s body and burned it completely.

The Turkish police statement indicated that the suspect had a fight with police officers after they entered the house, as he was inside at the time, and also spilled “caustic” substance during attempts to arrest him, resulting in in the injury of a police officer.

The statement says that investigations are underway on the suspect, while Eileen Sozer’s body will be sent to the Forensic Institute.

In recent years, crime rates have increased in Turkey, and the increase in crimes against women, and other crimes of a social nature such as kidnapping, rape, harassment and fraud, as well as murders has drawn attention that have increased due to the proliferation of licensed and unlicensed weapons.

According to a tally by the “Let’s Stop Femicide” platform, nearly 500 women were killed in Turkey in 2019, a number that has nearly quadrupled since 2011.