Supreme Court of Appeals Upholds Life Sentence of Nevin Yıldırım
"If Özgecan had killed her murderer, she would also be given life sentence"
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The appellate review of Nevin Yıldırım, who killed the man who sexually assaulted her in a systematic manner in Koruyaka village in Yalvaç, Isparta in 2012, has been completed.
Sentenced to life imprisonment by the Yalvaç Heavy Penal Court in Isparta, Nevin Yıldırım's appellate review has been conducted by the 1st Penal Chamber of Supreme Court of Appeals in the capital city of Ankara. The Chamber has upheld the life sentence of Yıldırım.
While the woman member of the court board has expressed a dissenting opinion of 'unjust provocation' to the verdict given by majority of votes, Yıldırım's lawyer Fatoş Hacıvelioğlu has stated that they will appeal to the Constitutional Court against the upheld life sentence.
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Her lawyers emphasized 'self-defense'
The appellate hearing of Nevin Yıldırım was held at the 1st Penal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals in Ankara on May 16, 2019. Closing the hearing, the court declared that it would announce its ruling on May 23.
Speaking in the hearing, the attorneys of Yıldırım emphasized that she committed the act in question as a self-defense and requested that the verdict of life imprisonment given by the local court be reversed.
What happened?Nevin Yıldırım, the mother of two living in Koruyaka village in Isparta, was raped at gunpoint by 35-year old N.G., also father of two, on August 29, 2012. Following the rape, Yıldırım killed N.G. who raped her, put his head in a sack and threw the sack to the village square saying "Here is the head of the one who stained my honour". Yıldırım also got pregnant after the rape and was forced to give birth to the baby without her consent on November 7, 2012. She faced aggravated life imprisonment for "planned willful murder with atrocious feelings". A forensic medicine report confirming that Yıldırım's mental health was intact, was submitted to the court in November 2014. On March 2015, she was sentenced to life imprisonment. No abatement was imposed on her sentence. The appeal hearing was held on September 14 before the Supreme Court of Appeal 1st Penal Chamber. Yıldırım was defended by 25 woman attorneys. |
(EMK/SD)