Orhan Oruçgüney murdered his mother, Gülbeyaz Oruçgüney, with a sharp tool in the Sultanbeyli district of Istanbul. Police and medical teams came to the scene after the neighbours heard screaming from the house. The medical teams could only confirm the death of Gülbeyaz Oruçgüney.

While the killer was taken into custody, the woman's body was taken to the morgue of the Forensic Medicine Institute in Yenibosna.

In separate incidents, Galip Gülistan in Kartal, Istanbul, was killed by her husband, Safura Gülistan, while a young boy, M.B.F. killed his older sister Sultan T. in Bağlar, Diyarbakır and Hacer Evlice was found murdered in her house in Afyon.