Yağmur Aşık plotted to murder her husband, Emre Aşık, a well-known
ex-footballer, by paying a hitman 10 million Turkish Liras ($ 1.3
million) and asking him to look for a safe place to bury her husband
after his death, media reports claimed.
The homicide plan failed
as the hitman spilled the whole story to Emre Aşık, one of the rare
Turkish footballers who has played for the three Istanbul giants
Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe and Beşiktaş.
Yağmur Aşık and her partner, Erdi Sungur, will get charged with “attempted murder.”
According
to the indictment filed by the prosecutor’s office of the northwestern
province of Düzce, Yağmur Aşık first asked Sungur to kill her husband.
“I
had an affair with Yağmur. She was only thinking of inheriting the
fortune after Emre Aşık’s death. She asked me to kill him, but I
refused,” said Sungur in his testimony to the prosecutors.
“Once
she brought me a piece of meat. She wanted me to shoot the meat. I did
attempt to shoot, but I squinted. ‘You can’t do it,’ she yelled
angrily,” added Sungur.
Sungur then introduced Yağmur Aşık to a hitman who had served time in prison for killing three people.
According
to the indictment, Yağmur provided a gun to the hitman, and they
searched rural areas and uplands in Düzce to find a “safe place” to bury
the ex-footballer after the hitman would kill him.
At the last minute, the hitman renounced the plan and the ex-footballer’s side.
The date of the first hearing of the criminal lawsuit in the Düzce Higher Criminal Court will be announced soon.
Emre and Yağmur Aşık tied the knot in France in 2012. The couple is not divorced yet and has three children.
Emre Aşık, who is an ex-defender, had played for the Turkish National Team in 34 matches.