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Former neighborhood head swept away by Kocaeli floods found dead at sea
The body of Mustafa Kedikli, a former neighborhood head in Kocaeli’s Başiskele district who went missing after heavy rain, was found in the Gulf of İzmit. In Istanbul, the body of 66-year-old Turgut Dursun, missing in Ayazağa, was also recovered. Interior Minister Çiftçi warned that “the danger has not passed.”
The body of Mustafa Kedikli, former head of Başiskele district’s Yaylacık neighborhood in Kocaeli, who was reported missing after heavy rain, was found in the Gulf of İzmit off Yarımca in Körfez district. The body was handed over to the relevant authorities for identification and to determine the cause of death.
Kedikli, who was reported to have been swept away by floodwaters, was reported missing on Wednesday evening as the rain intensified. His car was found Thursday in a creek bed in Yaylacık, but he was not inside. On the second day of the search, coast guard teams scanned the surface of the Gulf of İzmit, with coast guard, gendarmerie and AFAD teams working in coordination with the Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality.
The missing and the found
In Istanbul’s Ayazağa neighborhood in Sarıyer, the area hardest hit by the floods, the body of 66-year-old Turgut Dursun, who had been missing, was found under a bridge on Friday. His body was taken to the morgue of Şişli Hamidiye Etfal Hospital and an investigation was launched.
On Thursday, the body of a man in his 40s was found caught on a bridge pier by a creek at Sadabad in Kağıthane. He was reported to have been swept away by floodwaters in Ayazağa.
One person reported missing turned out to be alive. Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi said the man, sought in Ayazağa, could not be reached because his phone battery had died. On Friday morning, Çiftçi said the search for four people was continuing.
Those who lost their lives
On Wednesday, 14-year-old Mahmut Işıldak was electrocuted after stepping into a puddle in Çukurbostan Park in Fatih’s Balat district, and a 34-year-old identified as S.Y. died after slipping and hitting his head on a curb while trying to cross floodwaters in Ayazağa. Worker Faik Şentürk, who fell into a well while pumping out rainwater at a school construction site in Beykoz, also could not be saved.
Latest: 3,055 people rescued
Interior Minister Çiftçi said 3,055 people stranded in Istanbul had been rescued and 58,085 personnel were on duty nationwide. Calling it the biggest flood since 1942, he said orange alerts were in place in five provinces and warned that “the danger has not passed.” He said 1,621 personnel and 617 vehicles were deployed in Sakarya.
Environment Minister Murat Kurum said a total of 273 kilograms per square meter of rain fell on Istanbul, 186 kilograms of it within 24 hours, the highest in 83 years. Of 9,755 calls for help, 7,800 were answered; there were 48 landslides, 53 retaining walls collapsed in 39 districts and 109 animals died. Damage assessments were made for 300 businesses and 200 vehicles in Ayazağa. Istanbul Governor Davut Gül said residents whose homes or workplaces were flooded were being housed in hotels and state guesthouses and that compensation payments would start by Monday at the latest.
Family and Social Services Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş announced 40 million liras in funds for flood-hit Antalya, Kocaeli and Sakarya. The Istanbul Governor’s Office suspended in-person weekend classes at science and art centers, tutoring courses and public education centers on Oct. 17-18, and e-exams will not be held. The weather service issued new warnings for 14 provinces in the Marmara, Western Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean regions.
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