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A Critical Turning Point in the Gülistan Doku Investigation! Umut Altaş's Statement in the US Has Reached Türkiye: 'I Witnessed the Murder, We Transported the Body in the trunk.'

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Breaking news... Umut Altaş, for whom an arrest warrant has been issued and whose extradition is being sought from the US, gave a statement to US authorities as part of the Gülistan Doku investigation. Altaş stated, "I witnessed the murder, we transported the body in the trunk." It has been reported that the transcripts of Altaş's interrogation have been sent to Türkiye and added to the case file.

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Breaking news... Umut Altaş, for whom an arrest warrant has been issued and whose extradition is being sought from the US, gave a statement to US authorities as part of the Gülistan Doku investigation. Altaş stated, "I witnessed the murder, we transported the body in the trunk." It has been reported that the transcripts of Altaş's interrogation have been sent to Türkiye and added to the case file.

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Breaking news: In the investigation into the disappearance of Gülistan Doku, a 34-page FBI report sent from the US to Turkey has been added to the file. It has emerged that Umut Altaş, for whom an arrest warrant has been issued, was interrogated by the FBI for two days. During the interrogation, Altaş stated that Gülistan Doku was with Mustafa Türkay Sonel...

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It has emerged that Umut Altaş, for whom an arrest warrant has been issued in the Gülistan Doku investigation and whose extradition has been requested from the US, was interrogated by the FBI for two days. In the 34-page transcript sent to Turkey under judicial cooperation, Altaş stated that Gülistan Doku was transported by Mustafa Türkay Sonel in a vehicle...

·Türkiye
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It has emerged that Umut Altaş, for whom an arrest warrant has been issued in the Gülistan Doku investigation, was interrogated by the FBI in the US for two days. In the 34-page transcript, Altaş stated that he witnessed Doku being shot and killed by Mustafa Türkay Sonel inside the vehicle, and that they carried the body to the trunk together.

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A 34-page FBI report that emerged in the Gülistan Doku investigation contains striking allegations about what happened on the day she disappeared.

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Umut Altaş, a fugitive suspect in the investigation into the disappearance of Gülistan Doku, was interrogated by the FBI in the US for two days. Altaş confessed that Mustafa Türkay Sonel, the imprisoned son of the then-Governor of Tunceli, Sonel, killed Doku inside a vehicle and that they together carried her body to the trunk.

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Akşam broke the news in Istanbul, Türkiye on Sunday, September 6, 2026.
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