Forensic Medicine Institute

A captain of a Turkish-flagged cargo vessel sailing in the Indian Ocean was stabbed to death by the vessel's greaser on Dec. 20. Two crew members who wanted to neutralize the murderer also were injured with knife strokes.

The vessel was at the sea after receiving its cargo from Semeran Port of Indonesia.

The words "violence" and "domestic" should not be used in the same sentence, Denmark's Ambassador Soren Jensen Monday told a press conference that took place at the Police Academy in Bucharest whose topic was violence against women.

In a landmark decision, an Ankara court has ruled that a private who had lost his life after getting sick during military service in the Central Anatolian province of Çorum should be considered "service-disabled," thus making it possible for his family to be given a state salary.

An armored police vehicle has caused the death of a Syrian child while he was playing with his toys on the street in the Şişli district of Istanbul. 

The vehicle hit the 9-year-old child Rashed al-Ousso while he was riding his scooter on the Seyhan Street in the Mahmut Şevket Paşa neighborhood at around 12:30 p.m. on Aug. 1.

Imprisoned educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça received medical check-ups in an Ankara hospital on the 140th day of their hunger strikes at the request of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), daily Cumhuriyet reported on July 26.

One person was killed in an anti-terror operation carried out in Istanbul's Kadıköy district early on June 13.
Anti-terror police raided a house at around 12 a.m. in the neighborhood of Acıbadem as part of the operation, igniting a clash between security forces and the suspects.

The assassin of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, was buried in the cemetery of the nameless in Ankara on Jan. 13, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

A man with disabilities who was selling tissues in Ankara has been killed after being hit by a car late on Oct. 25.

The incident occurred on Türkocağı Street in Çankaya when a car with foreign license plates suddenly changed lanes after the vehicle in front braked abruptly, resulting in the driver hitting the unidentified man before fleeing the scene.

A 59-year-old man who allegedly sexually assaulted a 16-year-old boy was rescued from an attempting lynching in the southern province of Adana on Oct. 18, Doğan News Agency has reported.
The boy, identified only by his initials N.A., started to shout in the middle of the street, claiming that a man, A.T., was abusing him in the Sarıyakup neighborhood of the Seyhan district.

It is pleasing that there were massive reactions to the ugly attack experienced by nurse Ayşegül Terzi because of what she was wearing… This shows that, in our society, the culture of coexistence and diversity is developing now even though it is not yet adequate. 

Whether or not the attacker is schizophrenic is for the Forensic Medicine Institute to determine.