One police diver detained in Gülistan Doku investigation
Translated from Turkish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- A court detained police diver Gürkan Gürdal in the investigation into university student Gülistan Doku, who has been missing since Jan. 5, 2020.
- Two other suspects were released under judicial control, and the chief prosecutor’s office challenged those decisions.
- Seven of 10 suspects in the latest operation remain under processing, bringing the number of detainees in the wider investigations to 29.
A police diver has been arrested in the investigation into Gülistan Doku, a university student who has been missing in Tunceli since Jan. 5, 2020.
Gürkan Gürdal was one of three suspects sent to Erzurum courthouse after the latest phase of an operation involving police and gendarmerie. Two others, identified by their initials as A.K. and V.İ., were released under judicial control.
The Erzurum Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office appealed the judicial-control decisions involving two police divers. Proceedings for seven other suspects detained in the fifth wave of the operation were still continuing.
The investigations led by the Erzurum and Tunceli chief prosecutor’s offices now include 29 people in detention. Earlier detentions involved current and former security personnel, a security guard and members of his family, and a university student, according to the account.
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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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