Doctor, porn, rape and tattoo

BELGİN AKALTAN

Doctor H.A was released after his interrogation by police. Bodily features of the doctor H.A. did not match with the person seen in the porn video. Hürriyet photo

Hold on, they will all make sense in a minute. Everything I have written below is taken from police reports. They are facts. My comments are in parentheses.

A husband in Istanbul, E.E., who married one year ago, was browsing porn websites while at home. (Wait a minute, why would a newlywed husband browse porn websites? Why? And, why did I emphasize newlywed? Do I imply that for an old-wed husband it was acceptable to watch porn but never for a newlywed? Is this my subconscious speaking?) When the husband came across a video in which he spotted his wife, S.E., he suffered a shock, and then showed the content to his wife. (This is like a joke. If you write a script like this, no producer would film your scenario. I mean, what are the chances?)

The wife S.E., who is a nurse, said she was unaware of the footage but admitted she had been with a doctor – an internal disease specialist - while working at a hospital in Van two years ago. (Which Van? The eastern city which was hit by an earthquake last year, a natural disaster that sent waves of grief to the whole nation? The city where dozens of teachers died after their favorite café collapsed on them? When Van is mentioned I remember pain, two Doğan News Agency colleagues killed under the rubble of their hotel, the teenage boy’s face on posters? I mean Van? My mistake, I thought it was a miserable town, I never thought doctors and nurses were having fun there.)

The wife suggested that the doctor might have knocked her out, raped her and filmed the whole incident, so the couple then filed a complaint at the Office of the Public Prosecutor in Bakırköy about the doctor. The prosecutor ordered his detention.

Police teams detained the doctor, who was working at a private hospital in Bağcılar. (Hah, it is right here next to us. I mean our new office building is on the outskirts of Bağcılar, a vast but colorless district of Istanbul. And I am being polite here when I say colorless. But did I say colorless? Well, here is some color for you…)

The doctor was interrogated and police showed him the footage. He said: “I had a relationship with nurse S.E. three years ago while I was stationed in Van. Later, the relationship ended. Now, I am married and have a child. I am not the man seen in the footage. For me, the woman in the footage is not S.E. either.”

Police then determined that the film had been shot in a home environment and not at a hospital as initially thought. The woman filmed was unconscious and was being raped. The woman was S.E., according to the police, who then compared the physical features of the man in the film with the doctor. There was a tattoo on the man; there was also a tattoo on the doctor, but in a different place. In the video, the man had a tattoo on his left arm but the doctor had a tattoo on his right arm with a different design.

Other bodily features of the doctor and the person in the film did not match either, according to police reports. The doctor’s computer was examined, but there were no data confirming the alleged crime.

After his interrogation, the doctor was sent to the prosecutor’s office. Police said there was no proof that the person in the film was the doctor, and are now chasing those who posted the footage on the Internet. The doctor has been released, (I think we should find this prosecutor and start a campaign for him to be assigned to take cases at Silivri.)

(Is this my beautiful and lonely country Turkey, or are talking about another place? Is this the place where little girls are murdered by their little brothers just because they have been seen “talking” to boys? Or where young brides are sent back home because they are not “virgins,” later to be found to have “hung themselves” in shame? Are we talking about the same country?)