Prosecutors in Ballı investigation request autopsy report and last three calls

The Istanbul Anadolu Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has requested the autopsy report and the records of the last three phone calls made before his death by Ali Emre Ballı, Chairman of the Board of Adil Katılım Bankası, who was found dead in his car in Sırapınar neighbourhood of Çekmeköy on 6 October 2026.

The prosecutor's office sent a letter to the Forensic Medicine Institute on 5 November requesting that the autopsy report be forwarded to the investigation file. On 10 November, it asked the Cybersecurity Directorate to send information on the last three phone calls Ballı made before his death, along with SMS and cell tower records. The aim is to determine, through examination of the records, whom Ballı was in contact with before his death and from which areas his phone emitted signals.

Police and medical teams were dispatched to the scene after a report was made at around 15.40, and the examination established that the person in the vehicle was Ballı, aged 46. It was determined that Ballı had been shot in the head with a firearm and that a weapon was also found inside the car. Early reports focused on the possibility of suicide, but the prosecutor's office made no assessment of the nature of the death in its statement on 6 October.

Ballı's death occurred at a time when a wide-ranging fund investigation into transactions in the capital market was ongoing. Ballı was among 30 people whose assets were subject to a freezing order request on 30 September; in the assessment made the same day, the measures against Ballı as well as Mustafa Yazıcı, Murat Yönaç, Güven Çapan and Hayati Efe Oğuz were lifted. Ballı was found dead in his car six days after the measure on his assets was lifted.

Within the scope of the fund investigation, Adil Katılım Bankası General Manager Murat Yönaç was arrested on 9 November. An arrest decision was also issued for Muhammet Erişen, Deputy Chairman of the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK), as part of the same investigation. The prosecutor's office's requests were reported by Ceylan Sever of Sözcü TV.