Memet Ali Alabora bids emotional farewell to Serhat Kılıç: ‘What a wonderful eccentric you were’

Actor Serhat Mustafa Kılıç was found motionless on a sofa at his home in Istanbul’s Kağıthane district after friends went to check on him because they had not heard from him for two days.

Medical and police teams were called to the apartment in Nurtepe, where Kılıç, 51, was pronounced dead. Initial crime-scene examinations found no signs of blunt-force trauma, cuts or other wounds. Police nevertheless recorded the death as suspicious after reporting that materials, including cigarette papers, were found in the home.

The exact cause of death is expected to be determined after an examination by the Council of Forensic Medicine. Kılıç’s body was sent to its morgue, while police began investigating the circumstances of his death.

A woman identified as Özlem E., whose statement was taken by police and who said Kılıç was her boyfriend, said he had lymphoma and that she had not heard from him since Thursday.

Memet Ali Alabora, who had worked with Kılıç on several projects, shared a photograph of the two actors and wrote: “I never thought I would spend an hour looking at these ordinary photographs sitting in the archive. What a wonderful eccentric you were. I am glad we acted together, and I am glad we walked together.”

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I never thought I would spend an hour looking at these ordinary photographs sitting in the archive. What a wonderful eccentric you were. I am glad we acted together, and I am glad we walked together.