Ayşe Tokyaz murder case: 'We know the killer and his accomplices!'

The trial for the murder of 22-year-old university student Ayşe Tokyaz, whose body was found in a suitcase by the roadside, is underway at the Küçükçekmece 2nd High Criminal Court. The victim was allegedly killed by 38-year-old former police officer Cemil Koç.

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We know the killer and his accomplices.

Before the hearing, women's rights organizations gathered outside the courthouse to issue a statement. Ayşe Tokyaz's twin sister, Esra Tokyaz, was present, joining the call for the punishment of all responsible parties who failed to act on previous complaints and prevent the preventable murder.

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The killer Cemil Koç; he is an expelled police officer!

"We know the killer and his accomplices," read a statement titled "Justice for Ayşe Tokyaz!" issued by Evrim Gürenin on behalf of Feminists Against Women Murders and Ece Akpulat from the Platform to Stop Women Murders. The statement identified the killer as Cemil Koç, an ex-police officer dismissed from his post. It also implicated active police officers and men connected to mafia networks as accomplices.

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The complicity of men who carried the suitcase containing Ayşe's body after the murder, who had her house cleaned, who delayed her sister Esra at the Küçükçekmece and Halkalı police stations while she was searching for her, who added her on Instagram and harassed her, who sent the statement transcript to the killer Cemil Koç.

The case currently involves 11 men, 9 of whom are detained, including police officers who allegedly sent Esra Tokyaz's statements to Cemil Koç during the previous hearing. The activists assert that Ayşe Tokyaz was not solely killed by Koç but by a collective effort involving negligent police officers who prioritized protecting a former colleague over a woman's life, and other men involved in the killer's criminal network. They argue that without Esra's persistent efforts, Ayşe's death might have been covered up as a suspicious incident, similar to another case mentioned, Ejegül Ovezova.

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Police officers who did not do their duty, who prioritized protecting a former colleague over a woman's life, and the men in the killer's criminal network killed Ayşe Tokyaz together!