ISTANBUL: A Turkish court ordered a 15-year jail term on Friday for a former prosecutor who shot a female judge he claimed to have had an affair with.

Muhammed Cagatay Kilicaslan, who had worked in an office handling cases of violence against women, entered the judge’s office in Istanbul in January and shot her in the groin.

An inmate working in the court building as part of a sentencing arrangement stopped him from firing a second time.

Kilicaslan was convicted of the attempted murder of a woman.

He was ordered to serve 11 years and eight months of the jail sentence with the rest suspended. The prosecutor told the court that he had worked for two years in a department dedicated to preventing violence against women.

Women’s rights groups had expressed outrage over the shooting because of the prosecutor’s position.

The We Will Stop Femicide organisation said that 294 women were killed by men in Turkiye lst year, and another 297 died in suspicious circumstances.

Published in Dawn, June 13th, 2026