The body of 15-year-old Ali Nasır Mullaoğlu, who died in the earthquake in Hatay Training and Research Hospital, was thrown from the morgue to the street. The hospital came onto the agenda with the scandal of leaving the patients in the intensive care unit to die after the earthquake. Speaking to ANF, Eser Mullaoğlu said: "No one has the right to throw my son’s body on the street."
Eser Mullaoğlu, a mother of three, living in Hatay, lost her 15-year-old son in the earthquake on 6 February 2023. Mullaoğlu could not hold back her tears while describing what happened that night. She said: “During the earthquake, I took my son out. I asked him to wait there. While he was on his way to save his brothers, a pile of concrete fell on his head. He died on the spot. The Mukhtar put him in the car and took him to the morgue of Hatay Training and Research Hospital. He told me to take the body from there. Hours later, I sent a relative to the hospital. However, when he got there, he immediately called me and informed me that my son’s body had been thrown on the street. I went to the hospital and found my son’s body in the street."
Mullaoğlu said that her son’s body was left in a trunk for days, wrapped in a blanket. Stating that her husband was abroad at the time of the earthquake and that he came as soon as he heard the news, the mother said that they buried their son by their own means. Mullaoğlu said: “No one has the right to throw my son’s body in the street. We're talking about a 15-year-old boy. If my relative had not gone to the hospital that day, we would not have known what had happened to my son. Where would I look for my son? Is this justice? They put the bodies in body bags and took pictures.”
When asked whether she would file a criminal complaint, she replied: "Who are we going to complain to?"