Suphi Altındöken

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**Ahmet Suphi Altındöken** (1989 - April 11, 2016) was a Turkish Minibus driver who killed passenger Özgecan Aslan on February 11, 2015. He had attempted to rape sed passenger but she resisted, he then killed her. Her burnt body was discovered on February 13th. He was sentenced to life in prison alongside his father, Necmettin Altındöken and friend, Fatih Gökçe, who were also involved in the murder.

## Background

The Altındöken family was one of the wealthiest families in Mersin. His father was a jeweler, but when his jewelry business went bankrupt, he started working as a minibus driver with his son. He married Neslihan Altındöken, who was friends with Suphi in middle school, five years before the murder. After the events his wife divorced him and changed her face with plastic surgery. She also alleged that he was a domestic abuser.

## 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. He 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. He 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 his face, but he was not affected by it. He sexually assaulted Özgecan and tried to rape her. He then took out a knife and stabbed her many times and beated her with iron sticks. Özgecan, trying to protect herself from him, scratched his face and eventually lost consciousness.

He thought Özgecan was dead and called his friend Fatih Gökçe and 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.

He was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment for 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'.

## Death

On April 11, 2016, he and his father were shot in their own cell by another inmate, Gültekin Alan. His father survived but Suphi, who was shot in heart, did not. 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.

## Trivia

* He, his friend, Fatih Gökçe and murderer Gültekin Alan were all Grey Wolves supporters.
* Serial killer and vigilante Ali Kaya wanted to kill him.
* He sent more than 500 letters to his family while in prison.