Forensic science

The elements of deliberately killing with monstrous feelings or causing torment did not exist in the murder of 27-year-old Pınar Gültekin, a local court has stated while announcing the reason behind the reduction of the jail term of the murderer Cemal Metin Avcı in the country's high-profile femicide case.

Gültekin went missing in the southwestern province of Muğla on July 16, 2020.

The Bosnian state prosecution said on Thursday that the remains of at least 15 people have been found during an exhumation in the village of Medjine, alongside several fragments of skeletal and other human remains.

The Bosnian Missing Persons Institute said on Wednesday that the remains of three presumed Bosniak war victims who disappeared in the Mostar area in 1993 have been exhumed in the settlement of Miljkovici.

A Turkish doctor who accused a woman victim of a high-profile femicide of consenting to rape before being murdered has been banned from practicing his profession for six months.

The first official findings from the investigation into the causes of the deadly fire in a modular hospital in Tetovo on the night of September 8 indicate that a faulty extension cord overheated and caused a short circuit that led to the blaze.

A forensic report submitted to a local court in the high profile femicide case reveals that Pınar Gültekin, a 27-year-old student who was murdered in the Aegean province of Muğla last year, was burned alive.

The Specialized Prosecutor's Office filed an indictment with the Specialized Criminal Court against N.M., a leader of a political party, for helping a foreign organization in order to serve as a spy, aiming to disclose information that was a state secret.

The Missing Persons Institute said that an exhumation on Wednesday in the grounds of the Sarajevo University Clinical Centre, known as the Kosevo Hospital, revealed bone fragments, shoes and a wristwatch that probably belonged to a 1990s war victim.

Criminal prosecutors and police finished the on-site investigation at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases Prof. Dr. Matei Bals on Friday, one week after the fire that broke out on January 29, and a technical expertise will be ordered in this case by INCD INSEMEX Petrosani, in order to establish the causes of the fire.

A prosecutor in Hania, Crete, charged a 48-year-old Norwegian man with the murder of his 54-year-old partner with a knife in the area of Meskla and was given until tomorrow to prepare his defense.