Hasan İsmail Hikmet

Man receives aggravated life sentence for murder of academic

An Ankara court on Feb. 21 reached a verdict in the high-profile case of the murder of 27-year-old research assistant Ceren Damar Şenel.

The 33rd Heavy Penal Court of Ankara convicted suspect Hasan İsmail Hikmet to an aggravated life sentence on charges of "deliberate killing." He was separately given two years in prison for "violating firearm laws" and "threatening with a gun."