Woman “fell to her death on a 100-foot cliff after rejecting her marriage proposal”

A man has been arrested for allegedly pushing his girlfriend off a cliff after she rejected his proposal.

Suspected killer Nizamettin Gursu planned to pop the question to his girlfriend Yesim Demir, 39, and took her to a romantic cliff at Cape Polente in Turkey.

When police arrived on the scene after Ms. Demir’s fall, Gursu told officers that after she said “yes” and they had been happily drinking, he went to the car to get something, heard a scream and realized that Ms. Demir seemed abused.

Police noticed signs of a “violent struggle,” but also discovered broken glasses and a broken speaker.

However, Ms Demir’s family revealed that she had planned to break up with Gursu and would not have accepted the proposal.

During the investigation, police officers discovered that the ring that Ms Demir allegedly took was not on her finger, but in his pocket.

Police eventually arrested Gursu after Ms. Demir’s suspected family filed a complaint against him, and the family also revealed that Ms. Yesim had suffered from panic attacks and would never have willingly come so close to an abyss.

At the time of his girlfriend’s death, Gursu played the heartbroken boyfriend and said they decided to have a “romantic memory” after the marriage proposal.

He said, “We drank some alcohol.” Everything happened at once. She lost her balance and fell.”

Paramedics worked for 45 minutes to save Ms Demir’s life, but she died without regaining consciousness.

Gursu is being held pending trial.

Femicide is a growing problem in Turkey, which has worsened since the country officially withdrew from the Istanbul Convention in July 2021.

According to daily updated data from Monument Counter, a “digital monument to women killed by violence,” 393 women were murdered by men in 2022, while 376 femicides have occurred in Turkey so far this year.

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