“We are sure that it was a murder”: what is known about the death of a 16-year-old Russian woman in Turkey

A family from Krasnoyarsk suspected Turkish doctors of illegally taking internal organs from their 16-year-old daughter, who suddenly died in July in a private clinic in Alanya after an acute abdominal pain. Parents believe that their daughter could become a victim of "black transplantologists" and filed a statement with the Investigative Committee.

The Krasnoyarsk television channel "TVK Krasnoyarsk" spoke about the tragedy of the family. In early July, they decided to go to Turkey, choosing a rather unusual way for this - they went on a long journey by car. On the 9th day of the trip, July 13, when the Krasnoyarsk people were already on the Turkish coast, the 16-year-old girl had a bad stomachache.

At about noon that day, she was suspected of being infected and taken to the Siedra private clinic. “At 19:00, her first cardiac arrest began. Count for yourself how much they kept us! During the first cardiac arrest, the child lay and said: "Mom, am I dying?" About half a minute later she said that she did not hear anything. The doctor approached and began to measure her pressure, but he was already gone, ”the girl’s mother told reporters with tears in her eyes.

The deceased girl was a rather famous model in the city, collaborated with the DiOs-Models agency and dreamed of becoming a doctor. On August 26, she was supposed to be 17 years old.

In turn, the girl’s father said that the girl from one clinic was sent to another with suspected appendicitis. Doctors placed a hot heating pad on the child’s swollen stomach and placed droppers. As a result, after repeated cardiac arrest, she died according to official data from peritonitis.

Parents believe that the daughter’s body brought from Turkey to Krasnoyarsk was without some internal organs, which gave rise to suspicions of intentional killing. In addition, Turkish doctors, according to their parents, did not provide any certificates and test results, only a death certificate, which indicates that the Russian woman died of peritonitis.

“This is probably a murder. The first diagnosis was acute appendicitis, but none of the doctors did anything - the child was simply killed with droppers and tests. And for what? We are now reading about the same situations and there is a suspicion that all this was done for organ transplantation - it is very likely that our daughter didn’t return home completely, ”the father told reporters.

According to an unnamed source on the channel, Turkish doctors removed the uterus and part of the intestine from the body.

Parents turned to the Investigative Committee, which, as part of the pre-investigation check, ordered a forensic examination. She must confirm or undergo organ harvesting from the girl. Results should be ready in early September.

On Thursday, the official representative of the regional office of SK Olga Shamanskaya was inaccessible for comment. In turn, the regional prosecutor’s office RT said that the agency was incompetent to check Turkish doctors and advised to wait for the results of the investigation of the IC.

"It was too late."

Meanwhile, Turkish doctors reacted to the resonant news from Russia on Thursday, who categorically denied the allegations against them.

The head doctor of the Siedra clinic, where the girl was originally taken, speaks Russian and spoke about the assistance provided to the girl.

“We have an outpatient clinic, we provide only first aid. We do not even have an operating unit. Mom said that her daughter has been sick since July 10, and her stomach hurts badly for the fourth day. When the patient came to us on July 13, we did tests, put a dropper and sent her to the hospital. On CCTV cameras, all this is recorded - how she acted, how she left. She came to us at 13:00, and died at about 20:00 already in the hospital, ”Aisha Byukte told RT.

According to her, the girl’s tests were very poor, her leukocyte count was five times lower than normal. She suggested that the girl had an attack of purulent appendicitis, in which she needed to immediately provide medical care, and not wait three days before going to the doctors.

Clinic staff asked their parents which hospital they want to send the girl to: private or public. They chose a private one, after which she was taken by ambulance to the nearest private hospital.

“She had already spent six hours in the hospital, and she was not operated there either, since she had already arrived at them with the last, most severe stage of peritonitis. From there, they wanted to send her to Ankara. The embassy was also informed about this, ”Bukte said.

According to her, after death a private person or doctor has no right to perform an autopsy.

“If a patient in a hospital dies suddenly, we must notify the police and call a state expert for an autopsy.” The body is not given to parents in this case, but is first examined. Children under 18 are generally under the special protection of the state. We are very strict with this, ”the head doctor assured.

Bukte also reported that an autopsy was performed after death. According to local laws, its results should be ready within two months, and the clinic is waiting for them in the next two weeks.

In the second clinic, where the girl died, they also categorically deny all charges of organ harvesting.

According to RIA Novosti, the director of the Yasham Hastanesi clinic in Alanya Nurtach Ary, the girl’s mother treated the daughter for acute appendicitis for several days with activated charcoal, while she needed an emergency operation.

“The girl came to us too late, in an extremely serious condition with peritonitis, it was already impossible to save her. You can’t even think that the organs you are talking about were illegally taken here, ”she said.

The Turkish police are also waiting for the autopsy, which may charge the mother for calling the doctors too late.

The reaction of the Russian Foreign Ministry

Russian diplomats also responded to the resonant case.

In the plot of "TVK Krasnoyarsk" it was noted that the Russian Consulate General in Antalya, as soon as the girl was taken to intensive care, allegedly did not render any help. According to the parents, after the girl’s death in a telephone conversation, the diplomatic staff only dictated the contacts of the local ritual firm.

Irina Kasimova, spokeswoman for the Russian Embassy in Ankara, told RT that diplomats provided the family with the necessary assistance to their parents within their competence.

“Information about the hospitalization of a 16-year-old Russian woman in critical condition was received on the emergency telephone number of the Russian Consulate General in Antalya on July 13 at 18:30 (Moscow time). During a conversation with the attending physician and relatives of the patient, it turned out that on that day the girl was first taken to the Siedra clinic, then transported to the Yasham hospital ... The doctors could not establish the cause of the disease and, in view of the observed complications, including heart failure, made a decision urgently transport the patient to one of the more technically equipped hospitals in Antalya, ”said Kasimova.

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According to her, in accordance with the instructions of the doctors who insisted on transporting the patient by helicopter ambulance, with the participation of the consulate on duty diplomat, attempts were made to request a board through the local health department of Turkey.

“At the same time, requests were sent to insurance companies regarding the possibility of providing them with a helicopter with special medical equipment at the expense of the parents' financial resources, consultations were held with the on-call specialist of the medical evacuation center of the All-Russian Center for Disaster Medicine“ Protection ”of the Ministry of Health of Russia,” the press attache.

Despite the request of diplomats and doctors, the operational duty officer of the health department, referring to the norms of Turkish law, stated that it was impossible to provide sanitation, noting that the patient would be transported by ambulance.

“During the transportation of the girl in the intensive care unit, her condition deteriorated sharply, as a result of which it was decided to return the patient to the intensive care unit. Around 21:00, despite the resuscitation measures taken, her death was ascertained, ”Kasimova said.

She emphasized that the girl did not have a medical insurance policy: if it exists, repatriation is free of charge when an insured event occurs and a fatal outcome occurs. “Given this circumstance, the diplomat on duty informed the parents about the contact details of the ritual services operating in the region, which could assist in the matter of transporting the body on a paid basis,” the diplomat explained.

According to her, on July 14, local investigators officially notified the consulate general about the death of the Russian woman and reported that a criminal case was opened on this fact.

“On July 15, a note from the Russian Embassy in Ankara was sent to the Turkish Foreign Ministry with a request to inform about the results of the forensic medical examination, the causes of death and the progress of the investigation by the Turkish competent authorities of the death of the Russian woman. On the same day, the Consulate General prepared a set of documents necessary for the repatriation of the girl’s body to Russia, ”said Kasimova, noting that diplomatic missions abroad cannot independently conduct investigations.

At the moment, there is no response from the Turkish security forces, the investigation is ongoing.

“In accordance with local legislation, the results of a forensic medical examination will be presented to the investigating authorities after additional studies in specialized laboratories. For this, by the way, in full accordance with local legislation, samples of individual organs are taken for an in-depth toxicological and histopathological analysis, ”the diplomat said.

She added that, according to the diplomatic mission, the girl’s parents are duly informed of the progress of the investigation by the local lawyer hired by them.

“We proceed from the fact that in the course of the investigation carried out by Turkish competent authorities, the circumstances of this tragic incident and the reasons that led to the death of the Russian woman will be established, and the actions of the medical institution will be assessed and the circle of persons responsible for what happened will be determined,” the press attaché concluded embassies.

"We are sure that it was a murder."

After statements by Turkish doctors and the Russian Foreign Ministry, RT contacted her mother, who answered doctors and diplomats.

The girl’s mother, in an interview with RT, believes that the doctors of the first clinic initially diagnosed their daughter with an erroneous diagnosis, thereby wasting precious time.

“We arrived at the first clinic at 12 noon. They took a blood test, the doctor came up to us and said that there was no infection there, that the blood was good. They gave her a dropper and a hot-water bottle for some reason. Even if we brought her so late, as they say now, why did they keep her for three hours under a dropper and a heating pad? The doctor told my husband that she had a rotovirus infection, I still have sms from him, ”she said.

According to the woman, only when another doctor came to the groans of her daughter did he feel his stomach and finally realized that it was appendicitis.

“Only then they began to fuss, they said that they can’t do anything and need to go to another hospital. That is, they simply couldn’t make the correct diagnosis there, they lost valuable time, and now everything is falling down on us, ”she added.

But in another clinic, according to her, the diagnosis was not initially confirmed.

“The doctor after the ultrasound said that she has no appendicitis, but she can’t understand anything. We were taken to an MRI and cannot understand anything again, put under a dropper, and at 7 o’clock she had a cardiac arrest. They immediately ran in, said they were looking for a helicopter, and they called the embassy. But in the end, no one helped us at all. As a result, we ourselves found the helicopter with the help of friends, but it was already too late, ”she said.

The girl’s mother is sure that she could be saved. “One call was enough for the child to be treated and operated on. It’s just that Turkey has such an attitude towards the Russians. They do not cure. Now they are all talking about insurance. Yes, we did not have a policy, but we were ready to pay any money for the life of a child, there was no question about this at all. For the heating pad and dropper in the first clinic, they took about 20 thousand with our money. For ultrasound and MRI of the abdomen in the second - 130 thousand rubles, ”she said.

She also categorically denied the statements of doctors that by the time of the treatment the girl had a stomach ache for three days. According to the woman, he fell ill on the day of treatment, July 13.

Suspicions of organ harvesting, according to Tatyana, are based on the fact that when the girl died, her relatives immediately entered the intensive care unit and saw a small fresh stain of blood on the sheet that covered her daughter’s body.

“I don’t know how to live with the fact that I didn’t look under the sheet then. Where is this spot from? She just got her heart, did not open, nothing. I think they removed the uterus and sewn it all back as they could, it wasn’t the same to leave, ”she says.

At the same time, on a direct question from RT about whether her daughter’s organs were still removed or if she couldn’t reliably say this, Tatyana could not answer. “Now I can’t say. I’ll tell you later, ”she said.

According to the mother, the exhumation of the girl’s body was not carried out and is not planned. Investigators will rely on medical documents drawn up as a result of a re-autopsy, which was held in Krasnoyarsk before the funeral.

“We are sure that this was a murder and now we really want to get the truth,” she summed up.