Man, 30, Who Murdered Underage Wife Jailed For Life

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Story By: Feza Uzay, Sub-Editor: Joe Golder, Agency:  Newsflash

A Turkish man who claimed he was justified in killing his underage wife because she cheated on him has been jailed for life.

The man Nizam Cinar, 30, was technically guilty of rape when he had sex with his underage hairdresser lover Nursel Aris. She was aged 16 at the time which was underage because in Turkey the age of consent is 18.

He made her pregnant, and afterwards, he started living with her even though it was technically illegal as she was still too young.

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However, when he was arrested and imprisoned for stealing, she moved out of their home and back in with her parents where she gave birth to their child.

He was eventually released from prison and moved back in with his underage lover and their child in March 2018.

However, there was constant friction and the couple eventually broke up, and she refused to see him again after that.

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According to the indictment, Cinar insisted that they meet up so he could at least have access to their child, and after spending an afternoon with the infant, he offered to take them home in his car.

When she refused to get into the car, he shot her three times with an unlicensed gun in the north-western Turkish city of Istanbul on 5th June 2018.

Cinar, who escaped from the scene, was later caught, arrested and remanded in custody before taking the stand for the ‘deliberate murder of a child by design’ because his girlfriend was underage at the time of the killing.

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The Bakirkoy 14th High Criminal Court has now ordered him jailed for life for deliberate murder, rejecting his claim that because she cheated on him with somebody else it qualified as manslaughter rather than murder.

The court said there was no evidence that she had cheated on him and jailed him for life.

After the trial, Nursel Aris’s father Baki Aris said: “A case in point. This is the punishment for those who commit femicide.”

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