“Horror house”: Durdona’s killers found to have murdered another Uzbek woman (video)

Earlier, it was reported that the body of Uzbek national Durdona Hakimova had been found in a garbage container in Istanbul’s Şişli district by a waste collector. As part of the investigation, it has now been revealed that another Uzbek woman, Sayyora Ergashaliyeva, was also dismembered and killed in the same house in Ümraniye. This was reported by Evrensel.

According to the report, 32-year-old Sayyora Ergashaliyeva traveled from Uzbekistan to Turkey on December 28, 2025, and her relatives had been unable to contact her since January 23. After a police complaint was filed, investigators determined that she was last living in the same house where Durdona Hakimova had been killed. Surveillance footage showed that on January 23 Sayyora entered the house, followed by suspects identified as D.A.U.T. (31) and G.A.K. (29).

Investigators established that Sayyora Ergashaliyeva and Durdona Hakimova had lived with the two suspects for about a month, and that Sayyora had been in a relationship with one of them.

Police footage showed the suspects leaving the house several times on January 24 carrying garbage bags and later departing with a white suitcase. They traveled by commercial taxi to the Fatih district, where they disposed of the dismembered body parts in garbage containers before heading on foot to the Yenikapı Marmaray station.

During questioning, the suspects—already in custody for the murder of Durdona Hakimova—confessed that Sayyora Ergashaliyeva had also been killed with a knife in the same house on January 23. Her body was dismembered and discarded in various garbage containers. On the prosecutor’s orders, the suspects were taken from prison and re-arrested under charges of intentional murder. They are expected to be brought to court on February 13.

It had previously been reported that Sayyora Ergashaliyeva was missing and that her parents had traveled to Turkey in search of her.

A brutal murder

On the evening of January 24, a horrific discovery was made in the Duatepe neighborhood of Istanbul’s Şişli district. At around 7:40 p.m. local time, a waste collector named Okan found a body wrapped in sheets and bags while searching through a garbage container on Kuyulubağ Street. He immediately went to the police station to report the discovery.

Okan said he noticed a black bag while searching the container. When he tore it open, he saw blood and human remains and realized the body was still warm. Police officers arrived at the scene and confirmed the discovery. Initial examination suggested the decapitated body belonged to a woman.

Detectives from the homicide department later obtained testimony from another witness who said he had seen two bearded men waiting with a suitcase near the container around 7:00 p.m.

Surveillance footage showed the suspects bringing the suitcase to the container. Investigators found that the body in the container was missing the head and legs, and the suitcase believed to have carried the remains was later discovered in another garbage site on Bozkurt Street.

To preserve the crime scene, the body was not immediately removed from the container, and the area was secured while a full investigation began.

Public security officers identified the victim through fingerprints as Uzbek citizen Durdona Hakimova. She was wearing a black jacket, a black long-sleeved sweatshirt, and black underwear, and her body had been wrapped in a white sheet.

Camera footage and witness statements confirmed that two bearded men in dark clothing brought a light-colored suitcase to the container and later left the area on foot, abandoning the suitcase on a nearby street.

Istanbul police detained two suspects at Istanbul Airport while they were attempting to flee to Georgia. Both were Uzbek nationals. Investigators determined that one suspect carried out the killing while the other assisted.

One of the suspects confessed, saying: “We met Durdona Hakimova on the day of the incident and began a relationship. We argued, and I stabbed her. Then my friend and I dismembered the body, packed the parts separately into bags and placed them in a suitcase. We took a commercial taxi to Şişli and disposed of the remains in different garbage containers.”

The taxi driver who transported the suspects was also detained, bringing the total number of arrests in the case to three.

Following the incident, women in Ankara and Istanbul held protests on January 26 against femicide and impunity.