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Bloody Lies

Kanlı Yalan

An independent documentary series that re-examines the deaths the official narrative covered up — through the state's own official documents.

Kanlı Yalan
Documents, not allegations.
Illustration — a bloodstain on the path between the villas at night.

The unanswered question

If Mehmet Çetin was shot not in villa 1782, where the firefight took place, but at the rear of villa 1751, which the soldiers never went to; not with the soldiers' 5.56 mm rifles, but with weapons that make wider wounds; not in a firefight coming from the front, but in the back — then

who shot him, and why?

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That Night in Marmaris: Mehmet Çetin

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That Night in Marmaris: Mehmet Çetin

The Suspicious Death of a Presidential Bodyguard

On the night of 15–16 July 2016, in Marmaris, presidential guard officer Mehmet Çetin was killed. The official account says he was shot on the balcony of villa 1782 by soldiers who entered the hotel.

This book sets that account against the forensic and autopsy reports, the crime-scene records and the witness statements, line by line. The file's own documents point to a picture outside the official timeline.

İsmail Gülmez

A look at the file

Document Archive

A look at the file

The originals of the forensic documents cited in the book are accessible here, one by one: reasoned judgments, forensic and autopsy reports, crime-scene records, statements and camera footage.

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