İZMİR (AA) – GÖKHAN DÜZYOL – A lawsuit was filed against 6 defendants, including a doctor, regarding the death of Melike Çiftçi, who had a hip filler at the esthetician and beautician course in Izmir, requesting that they be sentenced to prison terms for “causing death by conscious negligence” and “favoring the criminal”. An investigation was conducted by the Karşıyaka Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office after Melike Çiftçi (59), who had an aesthetic operation in Bostanlı District of Karşıyaka district, died in the hospital where she was taken on October 29, 2024.
In the indictment prepared, it was stated in the autopsy report that Çiftçi’s death occurred as a result of fat embolism (prominent in the injection of silicon-containing substance) that developed due to the hip filling procedure. The victim’s defendant doctor Ö.Ö. (60), and that Ö.Ö’s aesthetic procedure was performed by his brother, the defendant K.Ö. It was stated that she carried out the esthetician and beauty specialist course registered in her name.
The witness M.S., whose statement was included in the indictment, claimed that the defendant Ö.Ö also performed a filling procedure on himself and that he used the course site to perform plastic surgery. – “Workplace that does not qualify as an operating room” The following findings were included in the indictment: “Ö.Ö performed hip filling operations on the victim, the suspect did this operation at a workplace that does not qualify as an operating room, does not have permission to perform operational procedures, and is a training course, therefore the action of the suspect cannot be considered as simple negligence, and furthermore, the suspect is subject to negligent injury, according to the Basic Law on Health Services and the Procedure of Execution of Medicine and Medicine Arts.” “It is understood that there is more than one file regarding crimes against the Law on Crimes, and therefore it must be accepted that he was at fault at the level of conscious negligence in the death that occurred as a result of his action.” It was noted that the other 4 defendants at the workplace, although they were aware of the transaction made to the victim, concealed it and made contradictory statements.
In the indictment, the defendants are doctor Ö.Ö. and his brother, business owner K.Ö. He was asked to be sentenced to 2 years, 8 months to 9 years in prison for the crime of “causing death through conscious negligence”. Prison sentences ranging from 6 months to 5 years were requested for the other 4 defendants for the crime of “favoring the criminal”. The security camera and KGYS camera recordings of the building where the workplace is located were also included in the file.
In the footage, Melike Çiftçi comes to the workplace to have an operation, and after a while, after she gets worse, she is hugged by the employees and taken out of the building and put into a car. After the car moves, Ö.Ö returns to the course site and leaves after a while. – The doctor had been tried before for the same crime. The defendant doctor Ö.Ö was also tried in the case regarding the death of Kübra Boyraz following the hip filling operation on September 19, 2020 in Beylikdüzü, Istanbul.
The defendant was sentenced to 6 years in prison for “causing the death of a person by negligence” on July 14, 2023, and this decision was approved by the appeal on March 19, 2024. It was learned that he was sent to the Supreme Court for – “We couldn’t get used to his absence” Gülser Gönültaş, the victim’s sister, told the AA reporter that her brother had no health problems before the incident. Arguing that the filling procedure was done in an inappropriate place, Gönültaş said, “We could not get used to his absence.
He had very beautiful dreams, dreams we had together. He had a very good outlook on life. His death shocked us. “I want the people who took my sister Melike away from her life to receive the heaviest punishment.” he said. The family’s lawyer, Ali Balcı, also noted that they obtained security and KGYS camera records through their work and ensured that the images were added to the investigation file. Stating that they took action on the incident because they knew that the defendant had committed similar crimes, Balcı said: “We did camera work to ensure that the person was punished.
When we looked, we found that there was camera footage at the entrance of the apartment. And after entering this file, the course of the investigation has already changed. This person receives a 6-year sentence from the first instance court in 2023, and an appeal is found appropriate 1 year later. “Despite this decision, an appeal is being made.” Balcı stated that they expect a decision to be made that will intimidate unauthorized businesses.
The indictment was accepted by the Karşıyaka 6th Court of First Instance.
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