Physician who legitimized the feminicide of Şule Çet dismissed from profession

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After university student Şule Çet was raped and strangled to death in a high-rise building in Ankara in 2018, Forensic Medicine Specialist Dr. Mehmet Nuri Aydın wrote the following remarks in his report prepared as part of Şule Çet case: "If a woman agreed to have a drink with a man in solitude, it means she consented to sexual intercourse."

The Ankara Medical Chamber has decided to dismiss Dr. Mehmet Nuri Aydın from the profession for a period of six months.

It was also later understood that Dr. Aydın was among the Forensic Medicine Institution physicians who gave a "healthy" report to Kutay Meriç, who was tortured in the Political Crimes Department of Ankara Security Directorate in 1989. It also turned out that Ankara Medical Chamber dismissed Dr. Aydın from the profession for nine months in 1990 because of this.

Attorney of Şule Çet case has announced the dismissal

The recent dismissal of the physician over his remarks about Çet has been shared by Umur Yıldırım, one of the attorneys of Şule Çet case.

Yıldırım has written on Twitter: "Dr. Mehmet Nuri Aydın, who expressed an opinion against the science of medicine, the law and morals in Şule Çet case and said, 'If a woman agreed to have a drink with a man in solitude, it means she consented to sexual intercourse,' has been suspended from profession for six months by the Ankara Medical Chamber."

What happened?

University student Şule Çet suspiciously lost her life after falling off the 20th floor of a high-rise building in Ankara on May 29, 2018. Defendants Çağatay Aksu and Berk Akand had been facing aggravated life sentence on charges of "murder", "sexual assault" and "false imprisonment".

The final hearing of the lawsuit filed into the suspicious death of Şule Çet was held at the Ankara 31st Heavy Penal Court on December 4, 2019.

Announcing its ruling, the court board ruled that arrested defendant Çağatay Aksu should be sentenced to life imprisonment on charge of "murder" and to 12 years, 6 months in prison and Berk Akand, the other arrested defendant, should be sentenced to 18 years, 9 months in prison.

The 1st Penal Chamber of the Ankara Regional Court of Justice (court of appeals) upheld the prison sentences on June 17, 2020. (PT/SD)