Istanbul Regional Gendarmerie Command Team. On January 1, 2023, the body of an unidentified man was reportedly found in the Sancaktepe Forest, his hands and feet tied with pantyhose and strangled.
Gendarmerie Crime Scene Investigation Team, who identified Semih Sevim’s fingerprints as those of a man’s body found by his family while out mushroom-picking. After an initial investigation, the family was contacted and it was discovered that Sevim was living in Tokat, but there was no news of her and a missing person report was filed.
Semih Sevim’s communications and traffic movements before his murder were identified through statements from people he met in Istanbul, the social media accounts he used, and the License Plate Recognition System (PTS).
The military police were suspicious of the contradictory statements.
The Gendarmerie team simultaneously searched four different addresses that they considered suspicious in the case, and he had doubts about the contradictory statements made by Sevim’s ex-girlfriend, Cecile Sifchi.
The team detained Cecil Sifchi after he had threatened Sevim on his social media accounts and found drugs in his home.
In her statement, Civci admitted that she had broken up with her ex-boyfriend Semih Sevim, but that she had killed him in a fight because he had been bothering her, and that she and her father Cemal Civci then left his body in the Sancaktepe forest. Cecil and his father Cemal Civci were arrested by judicial authorities and sent to prison.
Life imprisonment
A lawsuit was filed against Cecil and Cemal İfci at the 19th High Criminal Court in Istanbul seeking an aggravated life sentence for “premeditated murder”. During the sentencing hearing in the case. Cecil İfci was given an aggravated life sentence, and her father Cemal İfci was given a life sentence.
