An indictment was accepted calling for a Turkish editorial director to be imprisoned for 266 years in a drug and exploitation case
The Istanbul High Criminal Court accepted an indictment against the managing editor of the Habertürk TV channel, Mehmet Akif Arsoy, and six other defendants, demanding that Ersoy be sentenced to no less than 266 years in prison, on charges of supplying women with drugs and sexually exploiting them.
The 19th Grand Criminal Court in Istanbul accepted a new indictment against Mehmet Akif Ersoy, the arrested editor-in-chief of the Habertürk TV channel, and 6 other defendants, in a drug case, after the court had returned the previous indictment to the Public Prosecution to complete deficiencies in it.
The Public Prosecution in Istanbul completed the required deficiencies, and the court decided to accept the amended indictment, with the trial to begin after preparing the preliminary report. For the hearing.
The indictment calls for Mehmet Akif Ersoy to be sentenced to imprisonment for a period of no less than 266 years.
The indictment includes 11 women as “victims,” while the names of Ersoy, Ahmet Gocemez, Mustafa Manaz, Nurullah Mahmut Dindar, Taner Çağlı, Tolga Aykut, and Ufuk Tetik are mentioned as “suspects.”
According to the indictment, the Gendarmerie Command in Istanbul issued a report dated November 2, 2025 stating that Ersoy was organizing entertainment events during which he provided drugs and psychotropic substances to women in his surroundings, and exploited their weak will resulting from the use of these substances to establish group sexual relations with them.
This story was produced with machine-translation assistance, then went through human editorial review for accuracy and sourcing.
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