Famous Ukrainian model Angelika Srabianc died under mysterious circumstances in Turkey. Investigators believe she may have been killed by her boyfriend.
The 33-year-old model died on June 11 after falling from the balcony of the apartment where she lived with her partner. The apartment was located on the fifth floor in a district of Istanbul. The woman died in the ambulance on her way to hospital.
She fell from the fifth floor after a scandal with her partner. He has been arrested and is suspected of premeditated murder.
According to the Ukrainian edition Strana.ua, on the evening of June 11, the couple had dinner at a restaurant in the largest city of our southern neighbor. On their way home, the two quarreled in a taxi, and their quarrel continued in their apartment, during which the young woman went out on the terrace. According to her friend Burak Ercan, she apparently wanted to jump off the balcony, he caught her to hold her, but failed to save her. Meanwhile, Ercan, however, managed to shoot a short video with his phone of what happened.
This is another incident with a Ukrainian citizen in Turkey. In January this year A Turk attacked his 28-year-old Ukrainian girlfriend in a suburb of Istanbul and cut her face with a knife, BTA reports. In May, Ukrainian mountaineer Yana Krivosheya died under mysterious circumstances in a mountain in Turkey.
Violence against women in Turkey remains a leading problem for the country. According to NGOs, nearly 300 women were killed by their partners last year, and about 40% of women were subjected to domestic violence. Against this background, in March, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the country was withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention, which is an important tool in the fight against violence against women.
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