Murder suspect of Pınar Gültekin arrested

* Photo: Osman Akça – Muğla/AA

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The murder suspect of university student Pınar Gültekin (27) has been arrested on charge of "killing with monstrous feeling."

Reported missing six days ago in Turkey's Aegean province of Muğla, Gültekin was found dead in the woods. Taken into custody in relation with her killing, Cemal Metin A. confessed that he had murdered the woman.

He was first taken by the gendarmerie to the Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Training and Research Hospital for medical check, then to the Muğla Courthouse.

Cemal Metin A. has been arrested for "killing with monstrous feeling."

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What happened?

Living in the Neighborhood of Akyaka in Ula, Muğla, Pınar Gültekin left her house on July 16. Talking to her sister on the phone, elder sister Sibel Gültekin could not reach her after that. Worried about her life, she and mother Şefika Gültekin went to Muğla and reported her missing by appealing to the Akyaka Gendarmerie Station. Following this report, gendarmerie teams started searching for the missing woman.

Sibel Gültekin said that her sister was living in her own house in Akyaka and briefly added, "The last time that I talked to her on the phone was at around 3 p.m. on Thursday. She told me that she was at a shopping mall in Menteşe district. Then, her phone was switched off and we could not reach her again. We informed the related authorities about the issue. It was said that she was seen in Akyaka the day after." (EKN/SD)