Turkey has been shaken by the secrets of the dismembered corpses that washed up on the beaches in Antalya and Muğla since January 17. The number of bodies washed up on the beach increased to nine as of yesterday. In the last week, a total of 9 bodies washed up on the beach, 8 on the beaches of Alanya and Manavgat in Antalya, and 1 in Ekincik Bay in Muğla.
With the dead body of a woman being found in Muğla, a total of 9 corpses washed up on the beach in the last 7 days. Minister of Internal Affairs Ali Yerlikaya gave information about the bodies washed up on the beaches of Antalya and Muğla in his statement published on the social media platform X.
The statement included the following statements:
“Statement about the dead bodies washed up on the beaches of Antalya and Muğla: In the last 6 days, a total of dead bodies washed up on the shores of Antalya and Muğla. It is considered that one of the dead bodies washed ashore in Antalya belongs to M.Ş.E, who disappeared a while ago. The final result will emerge after forensic examination.
It was determined that the clothes of the other dead bodies washed ashore in Antalya were produced in Syria. It was determined that last month, a boat carrying approximately 90 people from the coastal region between Lebanon and Syria moved towards Cyprus, hours later the connection with the boat was lost and subsequently the boat disappeared.
Meteorological data indicate that the dominant wind has been blowing from the South for the last week; It shows that the waves are coming from the South East direction. It is considered that the dead bodies in question may be dragged to the Antalya coastlines due to current, wind and waves.
It was evaluated that the lifeless body washed ashore in Muğla could be one of the 3 irregular immigrants who disappeared 13 miles south of Kurtoğlu Cape on January 6, 2024. Identification efforts for the dead bodies washed up on the beach continue. “Our law enforcement units continue to work in coordination with our Public Prosecutor’s Office.”
The Body Found in Antalya’s Serik District Has Been Identified
It was determined that the body found in Antalya’s Serik district belonged to 18-year-old Merve Şevval Elmas, who disappeared on January 4. In the process that started when father Osman Elmas, who lives in Istanbul, filed a missing person’s complaint after not being able to reach his daughter, Merve Şevval Elmas, a first-year student at the Department of Gastronomy, since January 4, the Provincial Police Department teams started working to find the young girl.
It was decided to take a DNA sample from the family of the woman’s body found on the beach in Serik district on Saturday, January 20, on the possibility that it belonged to Elmas. Father Elmas, who came to Antalya from Istanbul on Sunday, January 21, gave a DNA sample for his daughter after receiving information from the authorities.
As a result of the DNA analysis, it was confirmed that the body of the woman washed up on the beach in Serik belonged to Merve Şevval Elmas. It was stated that Elmas’ body will be taken from the Antalya Forensic Medicine Institute morgue and buried in Istanbul.
How Were the Bodies Found? Events That Happened!
Turkey has been shaken by corpses washing up on the beaches for days. A woman’s body with missing limbs was found on the beach in Köyceğiz district of Muğla. The incident took place on the coast of Ekincik Bay. A person fishing in the Gökyar Burnu area, where there is no land transportation, came across the body of a woman washed ashore. Following the notice, Coast Guard teams were dispatched to the region. It was determined that some of the female body’s limbs were missing and the body was taken to the morgue of Köyceğiz District State Hospital under the coordination of Köyceğiz District Gendarmerie Command teams. It is considered that the body may belong to irregular immigrants. Türkiye acts sensitively in the face of these sad events and continues investigations.
In the incident that occurred in the morning hours on the beach of a hotel in the Kadriye District of Antalya’s Serik district, police teams were dispatched to the scene upon the notice of the hotel employees. As a result of the police investigation, two bodies of unknown gender and identity were found 500 meters apart on the beach. The bodies were sent to the Antalya Forensic Medicine Institute after the prosecutor’s examination.
In the same context, after the bodies of a child and an adult were found on the beaches of Alanya and Manavgat on Wednesday, 2 more bodies were detected in Manavgat and 1 more in Serik yesterday. Upon the possibility that the female body found in Serik’s Kadriye District belonged to Merve Şevval Elmas (18), who disappeared 13 days ago in Antalya, her family living in Istanbul came to Antalya to take a DNA sample.
In the statement made by Antalya Governorship, while the possibility of a ship lost off the coast of Lebanon sinking was emphasized, it was determined that the clothes belonging to 5 dead bodies washed ashore were Syrian production. This situation strengthens the possibility that the bodies that washed up on Antalya beaches in recent days may have resulted from the sinking of an illegal immigrant boat.
