Women Want To Join Yılbaş Murder Trial

In the second hearing of Petty Officer master sergeant Hüseyin Güneş Özmen’s trial, who is accused of murdering his wife Ayşe Yılbaş, an intern at Cerrahpaşa Medical School, the court will decide whether to accept the application of Purple Roof Women's Shelter and Foundation to join the trial on the side of the victim.

Forty women’s organization will make a press release before the hearing that will start on June 12 at 10.00 (today), announcing that they are on the side of the victim and repeating their demand to join the trial process. The women are saying that they will not accept the usual practices of “manly excuses” and the unjust “provocation reduction” from the original sentence.

In the first hearing of the trial on May 13, the accused Özmen had accepted the fact that he had killed Yılbaş and said that he was not himself at the time of the incident. The court had decided that Özmen remained arrested.

Özmen shot his 24-year-old wife Yılbaş, who was trying to divorce him, 12 times in the Neurology service of Cerrahpaşa Medical School.

40 women’s organizations showed their support by asking the court to join the trial on the side of the victim. (TK/EZÖ/TB)