May 26, 2025
Updated June 4, 2025
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What You Need to Know:

I’m trapped in a building officially declared unsafe in March 2023—authorities refuse to evacuate it despite earthquakes, including a magnitude 6.2 quake on April 23, 2025, and future major earthquake risks of 7.0 or above.
When I reported this, Turkish judiciary retaliated with a fake "mental incompetency" case to silence me.
This involves corruption from building managers to the Interior Minister, putting lives at risk.
My struggle, now spanning over five years—marked by relentless obstruction and systematic cover-ups —has subjected me to escalating human rights violations by Turkish authorities in the last two years.

My case shows a cascade of criminality in Turkey starting at the building management and apartment owners level, proceeding to municipal level and then eventually to state level, putting my life in danger amid major earthquake risks.

It started in March 2020 with the building manager Mikael Yardim refusing my suggestion to contact his lawyer for building code violations by saying "I don't have any business with lawyers". A year later, he put an old Turkish military entrance card on his Range Rover jeep and he refused to leave his post. He doubled down on unlawful at every instance and continued to harass me. Today, criminal acts continue with state involvement and my US citizen sister's 'no legal solution" WhatsApp message dated May 14, 2025.

The ordeal is more than 5 years old, in the last 2 years of which Turkish state is involved by siding with those who broke the laws. Some apartment owners/managers have/had Turkish military ties. There is a computer engineer working at IBM Germany (Cuneyt Goksu), a lawyer (Birsen Malkoc), a public notary (Tulay Cihangir), a young actress (Lilya Irem Salman), and an ex-state employee (Nurdan Kivanc) among the apartment owners. Absolute disregard for law and constant lies is an ordeal in itself and being confined in an officially unsafe building and forced to endure earthquakes in it is part of the psychological torture.

Please see my submission form to the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner: UN_d02ryu4c.pdf / (html version)

Key Observations:

Right to Life & Safety violations stem from the government's refusal to act on an officially unsafe building, despite earthquake risks.(see Öneryıldız v. Turkey, ECtHR, 2004)
Judicial Retaliation & Due Process Violations are the most recurring theme, with multiple instances of prosecutorial misconduct and denial of fair trial rights.
Psychological Torture is evident through forced confinement in a dangerous building and retaliatory legal harassment.
Suppression of Dissent highlights Turkey's systemic crackdown on whistleblowers and human rights defenders.
State Corruption is pervasive, with the Interior Ministry and judiciary actively obstructing justice.

My email to the UN Office of the Human Rights Council for urgent intervention: My email to UN human rights offices

Below is a short chronology of events. If interested, you may find a slightly longer but more comprehensive summary of events here: chronologyofevents.html / chronologyofevents.pdf

My Blog in Turkish which I am sharing with Turkish authorities since I contacted Kadikoy Municipality for building inspection on March 8, 2023. Moda Suç Apartmanı (Moda Crime Building)

SHORT CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS

Following the catastrophic 2023 Kahramanmaras earthquakes—exposing systemic criminal negligence by builders/municipalities—I reported structural risks (broken column, illegal renovations) in my 49-year-old Istanbul apartment building (Moda/Caferaga, Kadıköy). The building, constructed with illegal corrosive sea-sand in a high-risk seismic zone, was declared unsafe in a March 21, 2023, municipal report confirming a severed column/beam connection, a pipe embedded in another column, and illegal expansions in 6 of 11 apartments. Kadıköy Municipality colluded with corrupt building management and apartment owners to conceal the report, falsely claiming "no broken column" and ignoring legally mandated evacuation protocols written in the report requiring action within 30 days if no safety assessment was provided.

After exposing the cover-up via my blog (Moda Suç Apartmanı), I filed a criminal complaint on December 1, 2023. The same day, the prosecutor who took my deposition, Sibel Gungor, retaliated with a conservatorship case against me - an effort to strip my autonomy-, basing it solely on my complaint. A week later, on December 8, 2023, another prosecutor, Hüseyin Önelge, dismissed my complaint as “totally abstract”—an arbitrary dismissal—despite knowing the Chief Prosecutor's Office had opened an investigation on the same day as my complaint. On September 30, 2024, I received a non-prosecution notice revealing the Interior Minister blocked the investigation, which I objected to on October 8, 2024. Three weeks after my criminal complaint, building management falsely claimed to have “just received” the March 21, 2023, municipal report (contradicting a July 17, 2023, municipal email stating it was sent earlier) and conducted a sham 9,500-TL “renovation”—a laughable sum for a 5-story building—while avoiding mandatory safety tests and reinforcement permits.

In September 2024, I discovered my name/citizenship number listed on a guardianship petition but the guardianship request was for Nurcan Türkan, a stranger, in the court file. Separately, lawyer Kemal Kaya—a 50-year family acquaintance—revealed on June 8, 2024, that my U.S.-citizen sister (Zeynep Kurtkaya Kayalıoğlu) who lives in Turkey and 2-3 apartment owners filed another conservatorship petition, omitted from my dossier. My sister, who illegally uses the building for storage/parking and co-owns my apartment, dismissed risks/legal avenues via WhatsApp on May 15, 2025: "No legal solution."

The Chief Prosecutor's investigation was halted after the Interior Minister blocked prosecution of Kadıköy's former mayor, with notice sent to my nonexistent lawyer, denying me recourse. I objected on October 8, 2024, citing 22 counts of municipal crimes, rights violations, and demanding evacuation. Authorities ignored these pleas. On April 23, 2025, 6.2-magnitude quake struck Istanbul —near Turkey's 6.4 demolition threshold.

Hundreds of tweets to ministries, municipalities, and military headquarters (noting manager Mikael Yardım's 1980 coup-era military card on his Range Rover) went unanswered —amid expert warnings of potential magnitude 7.0+ earthquakes in Istanbul in the future. The "coffin building," still occupied with rentals/sales, remains my only residence; I refuse to sell my share, ethically opposing endangering others.

On December 3, 2024, I petitioned to recuse Judge Ali Topaloğlu in the retaliatory conservatorship case, citing 10 grounds: (1) basis in my criminal complaint, (2) unlawfulness, (3) name inconsistency (Nurcan Türkan vs. my identity), (4) obstruction of safety advocacy, and (5–10) legal violations. The judge rejected it the next day, on December 4, 2024, claiming my objections related to the case’s basis (*esas*) and were dilatory; overlooking obvious judicial irregularities (e.g., unfounded basis of the case, prosecutorial misconduct, missing documents) constitutes partiality. This perpetuates psychological torture and systemic rights violations.

Judicial Irregularities & Corresponding UN Legal Grounds

Note: The following violations are exacerbated by imminent seismic risks, including a 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Istanbul on April 23, 2025, and expert warnings of potential magnitude 7.0+ quakes, heightening threats to life and safety.

Category of Violation	Specific Violations	UN Charter/Instrument Violated
Right to Life & Safety	Refusal to evacuate an officially unsafe building despite seismic risks Failure to investigate structural risks confirmed by municipal report Ignoring mandatory evacuation protocols Prolonged exposure to life-threatening conditions	ICCPR Art. 6 (Right to Life) ICESCR Art. 11 (Right to Adequate Housing)
Judicial Misconduct & Lack of Due Process	Three-Tiered Prosecutorial Fraud by Huseyin Onelge: Self-contradictory dismissal (claims "totally abstract" yet recommends administrative action) Contradicts Chief Prosecutor's parallel investigation (Takip No: 2023/280089) Willful ignorance of documented municipal complaints Retaliatory Judicial Weaponization: Conservatorship case filed the same day as criminal complaint (Dec 1, 2023) Officially cites the complaint itself as "evidence of mental incapacity" Rejection of recusal petition without substantive explanation Fabrication/misrepresentation of legal representation Denial of opportunity to object to Interior Ministry's decision	ICCPR Art. 14 (Right to Fair Trial) UN Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary (Principles 2, 12, 14) UN Guidelines on the Role of Prosecutors (Art. 13(b), 16) UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders (Art. 1)
Torture & Psychological Abuse	Retaliatory conservatorship causing severe mental distress Forced confinement in a high-risk "coffin building"	UNCAT Art. 1 (Definition of Torture) General Comment No. 3 (Severe Mental Suffering)
Suppression of Dissent & Freedom of Expression	Retaliatory use of legal mechanisms to silence whistleblowing Lack of response to formal complaints and social media warnings	ICCPR Art. 19 (Freedom of Expression) UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders
State Corruption & Lack of Accountability	Interior Ministry blocking investigation without transparency Municipal cover-up of seismic risks No accountability for abuse of duty	ICCPR Art. 2(3) (Right to Effective Remedy) ICESCR Art. 2 (State Obligations)

DOCUMENTS PROVING MY CLAIMS:

1. Istanbul Kadikoy Municipality Correspondence and Official Building Report proving 22 counts of abuse of duty putting people's lives at risk including my own to protect corrupt building management and apartment owners. kadikoymunicipalitydocs.html

2. Criminal acts of the Turkish Judiciary to protect both the Kadikoy Municipality and the corrupt building management and apartment owners. Includes Interior Minister's blocking of the criminal investigation conducted by the Chief Prosecutor's Office which was started upon my complaint by not allowing the investigation of the former Mayor of Kadikoy, Serdil Dara Odabasi. criminalcomplaint.html

3. Unlawful conservatorship case against me to protect the criminal actors of the Turkish Judiciary, Kadikoy Municipality, and the corrupt building management and apartment owners and to stop my whistleblowing while putting my life at risk by confining me to an officially declared "coffin building". conservatorship.html