Istanbul Fugitive Wanted for Eight Years Arrested in Women’s Clothing
Translated from Turkish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Police arrested Tuğrul Başar in Kadıköy after he had been wanted since February 2018 over three finalized prison sentences.
- Investigators said he had disguised himself as a woman and used his sister’s identity card to avoid arrest.
- Police also opened proceedings against him for using another person’s identity information.
Police in Istanbul arrested Tuğrul Başar, who had been wanted for eight years after receiving three finalized prison sentences for assuming an official identity without authorization in a 2010 theft case in Samsun.
Teams from the Wanted Persons Bureau determined that Başar was in Kadıköy and had been moving around in women’s clothing to avoid capture. Officers placed him under surveillance and arrested him the previous day.
Police found an identity card belonging to his sister on him. Investigators said he had managed to evade arrest for years by using it. They also initiated proceedings on suspicion that he had used another person’s identity information.
Başar was handed over to the Kadıköy İskele police station for processing.
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Originally published by Cumhuriyet in Turkish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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