A Turkish court on Friday sentenced a prosecutor to 11 years, eight months in prison for attempting to murder a woman judge by shooting her in her office, local media reported.
Muhammed Çağatay Kılıçarslan entered Judge Aslı Kahraman’s office at an appeals court in İstanbul on January 13 and shot her in the groin.
An inmate assigned to work as a tea server at the courthouse intervened and prevented Kılıçarslan from firing again.
The İstanbul 35th High Criminal Court convicted Kılıçarslan of attempted murder and ordered his continued detention, according to the DHA news agency and other Turkish media.
The court imposed an additional three years, four months for trespassing involving force or threats, making threats with a weapon and unlawfully obtaining personal data.
It deferred the announcement of the verdicts on those charges.
Kılıçarslan had worked between 2022 and 2024 in a prosecutor’s office responsible for cases involving violence against women, Turkish media reported.
Women’s rights groups expressed outrage over the shooting because of his position and previous assignment.
The We Will Stop Femicide Platform said 294 women were killed by men in Turkey in 2025, while another 297 died under suspicious circumstances.
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