19-year-old Turkish girl sexually assaulted in central Istanbul

ISTANBUL

A 19-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in one of Istanbul’s high-end neighborhoods in the Kadıköy district on Jan. 23, daily Habertürk has reported.

Attacker Cengiz A. armed with a knife followed the 19-year-old university student, E.F.B., as she was returning from Kadıköy after having dinner with friends. The woman had disembarked from a dolmuş and was proceeding toward her home in the Bostancı neighborhood when she was attacked by the assailant, who allegedly closed the girl’s mouth and dragged her to the backyard of an apartment near her house before sexually assaulting her.

He also took the girl’s money from her bag, along with her cellphone.

Istanbul police apprehended Cengiz A., who is a 33-year-old shuttle driver, on Jan. 26 at this house in the Pendik district with the help of an analysis from semen examples. 

It was revealed that he had also been convicted for drugs, fraud and robbery offenses.

Meanwhile, an Istanbul court ordered the arrest of shuttle driver Cengiz A. over sexual assault and robbery.
It is not the first time that the neighborhood made the headlines. Murathan Öztürk, a law student, hitflower seller Mehmet Emin Kaya, 34, with his luxury car on Bağdat Avenue on July 11, 2015. Öztürk was exceeding the speed limit when the accident occurred and fled the scene. However, he was caught on Oct. 6, 2015, after 87 days on the run.