Necmettin Altındöken

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## Necmettin Altındöken

### Goals

Hide Özgecan's body.
Avoid punishment for his crimes.
Help his son avoid punishment for his crimes. (all failed)

### Crimes

Murder
Torture
Mutilation
Corpse desecration
Smuggling
Domestic abuse
Tampering with evidence

### Type of Villain

Murderer

**Necmettin Altındöken** is a Turkish criminal as well as father of the murderer and attempted rapist Suphi Altındöken. He aided and abetted his son and Fatih Gökçe's murder and attempt to get rid of the body of 19 year-old university student Özgecan Aslan.

## Background

The Altındöken family was one of the wealthiest families in Mersin. He was a jeweler, but when his jewelery business went bankrupt, he started working as a bus driver with his son. He was involved in smuggling and traffic accident before the murder.

## Murder of Özgecan Aslan

On 11 February 2015, after Özgecan left the shopping mall with her friend, she got on the bus to go home alone. Özgecan was the only passenger in the bus and the driver was the Suphi Altındöken. Suphi did not let any passengers onto the bus along the way and did not follow the path he was supposed to go. Realizing that something was wrong, Özgecan started to scream. Suphi then stood up and started walking towards Özgecan. Özgecan took out the pepper spray she was carrying with her from her bag and sprayed it in Suphi's face, but Suphi was not affected by it. Suphi sexually assaulted Özgecan and tried to rape her. Suphi then took out a knife and stabbed her many times and beated her with iron sticks. Özgecan, trying to protect herself from Suphi, scratched his face and eventually lost consciousness.

Suphi thought Özgecan was dead and called his friend Fatih Gökçe and his father Necmettin Altındöken to get rid of the body. They cut off Özgecan's hands to avoid leaving evidence in the DNA test because she scratched Suphi. Then they went to a forest area, burned the body and threw her into a stream.

Later, the trio was caught by the gendarmes on the road. They asked the gendarmerie for directions, but they took a route other than the one told by the gendarmerie. Suspicious of this, the gendarmerie stopped the bus. Gendarmes who examined the bus found traces of blood in the vehicle. They told the gendarmes that the blood belonged to two passengers who had fought on the bus. They were caught, but were released when the interrogation was insufficient. They also found a hat in the bus.

While all this was happening, Özgecan's family reported the situation to the police and gendarmerie and the teams started looking for Özgecan. Her sister also shared his photo on social media and asked for help from people who saw her.

After it was confirmed that the hat, that found in the bus, belonged to Özgecan, Necmettin Altındöken and Fatih Gökçe admitted the murder. The search for Suphi began and he was captured in a short time. Necmettin informed his son that the body was found. After wandering around the city all day, he was caught in the evening.

## Aftermath

Ahmet Suphi Altındöken got aggravated life and 27 years imprisonment for 'Killing with monstrous feelings or infliction of torture, killing to hide a crime or to hide evidence of another crime or to avoid being caught, killing out of anger resulting from not being able to commit another crime, attempted aggravated sexual assault and deprivation of liberty with sexual motivation'.

Necmettin Altındöken and Fatih Gökçe got aggravated life imprisonment for 'Killing with monstrous feelings or infliction of torture, killing to hide a crime or to conceal evidence of another crime or to avoid being caught, killing due to indignation resulting from not being able to commit another crime'.

After the events, Suphi's wife changed her face with plastic surgery.

On 11 April 2016 Suphi Altındöken died after being shot in hearth by another inmate Gültekin Alan. The headman of the village did not allow Suphi to be buried in the village cemetery and he remained in the coffin for 5 days. Although his father wanted to attend his funeral, he was not allowed to do and it is unknown where he is buried.