Mert Yılmaz

**Mert Yılmaz** (1999–) was the the suspect in the murder investigations of professor, Ahmet Sarışın in Life Torn Apart (Case#3 of Mysteries of Turkey, aviation student Mehmet Kumral in The Lust For Power (Case#5 of Mysteries of Turkey), escaped convict Roma Balogh in Night of Dead (Case#10 of Mysteries of Turkey), traveller Ketevan Abramashvili in Chase Your Fate (Case#15 of Mysteries of Turkey), before killing criminal Metin Akyüz in Dig Your Innocence (Case#18 of Mysteries of Turkey), Hell's Gate Member Casper Shirvani in Fate of The Lust (Case#26 of Mysteries of Turkey), HG's leader Amanda Mackay in Power, Sacrifice and Death (Case#30 of Mysteries of Turkey).

In Mystery in the Americas, he was the suspect in the murder investigation of former Cobras Azuis member Yang Dae-Hyun in That Old Innocence (Case#10 of Mystery in the Americas), astronaut Envy To Nowhere (Case#13 of Mystery in the Americas)

## Biography

Mert Yılmaz was born on 2 December 1999 in Istanbul, Turkey as the oldest child of Ahmet Yılmaz and Feride Özgür. He has a younger sister Elif Yılmaz. He was born into an wealthy and affluent family who had several businesses around the country. He was brought up in extremely European lifestyle, and for that purpose he was educated at Galatasaray High School, where he took courses in English and French. He adapted French and English lifestyle. He later went onto study at Technical University of Munich in Munich, Germany where he learnt German.

Mert was extremely fight loving and action lover, noted to be playing a lot of gun games, and due to this, he developed a fierce personality, however he was really protective towards Elif and his best friend Onur. According to him, he wouldn't let anyone hurt Onur, except him. Both of them have been friends even since they were kids, and still are as being adults, and have been inseparable since, their friendship however made many people jealous, and they tried to set them against each other, however it was impossible. In 2010, when Mert was 11, there were series of kidnappings of children in Istanbul. One day when they were out for dinner, along with Onur's family, his sister Elif as being a sweet tooth ran to the desert corner which was outside. He and Onur ran beside her, she was being held by a 21 year old kidnapper, and him who was 11 and Onur who was 10. When they noticed the kidnapper they both ran beside him and kicked him after which he fell to the ground, and started to beat him up. After beating him for a while, the police finally showed up and got rid of the group. Mert and him were awarded by the police for helping them to arrest the group.

In 2016, he started to date Ceren Ayhan, and the couple is still dating, and planning to getting engaged soon.

In 2021, Mert was brainwashed by Hell's Gate leader Amanda Mackay who prompted him to commit crimes with him, and for that reason, he started to hate his close people, especially Onur, and it even reached to the point when Mert tried to kill Onur, however luckily enough he managed to survive. Later, he remembered everything and joined Turkish Resistance Organisation to defeat HG. In the end with the death of Amanda and defeat of Matthew Erickson and Eylül Öztürk, HG was finally defeated with Mert receiving injuries, however he recovered later on.

## Case Appearances

* Life Torn Apart (Case#3 of Mysteries of Turkey)
* What Comes After (Case#4 of Mysteries of Turkey)
* The Lust For Power (Case#5 of Mysteries of Turkey)
* Night of Dead (Case#10 of Mysteries of Turkey)
* Chase Your Fate (Case#15 of Mysteries of Turkey
* Dig Your Innocence (Case#18 of Mysteries of Turkey)
* An Evil Truth (Case#19 of Mysteries of Turkey)
* Once A Bloody Union (Case#20 of Mysteries of Turkey)
* That Old Revenge (Case#21 of Mysteries of Turkey)
* Broken Promises (Case#22 of Mysteries of Turkey)
* Nowhere To Burn (Case#23 of Mysteries of Turkey)
* Over The Poison (Case#24 of Mysteries of Turkey)
* Quarrel of Respect (Case#25 of Mysteries of Turkey)
* Fate of The Lust (Case#26 of Mysteries of Turkey)
* Secrets Die Together (Case#27 of Mysteries of Turkey)
* Agony Goes Around (Case#28 of Mysteries of Turkey)
* King of Hearts (Case#29 of Mysteries of Turkey)
* Power, Sacrifice and Death (Case#30 of Mysteries of Turkey)
* That Old Innocence (Case#10 of Mystery in the Americas)
* Envy To Nowhere (Case#13 of Mystery in the Americas)