Pen Guns in Turkey

Forensic Science International, 2003

The variety of instruments used for crime of violence is wide. Besides the manufactured legal weapons, there are comparable numbers of purchased instruments, which are used as lethal weapons and significant numbers of comprising home-made ones. The instruments used during the commission of a crime shows similarity throughout the countries. Nevertheless, there are small differences to be seen. The topic of this subject features the types of weapons used in criminal offenses in Turkey.

Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2009

A wide variety of handmade firearms have been involved in criminal cases in the city of Trabzon, Turkey. Although they are often very similar to commercially manufactured firearms in terms of design, loading and locking mechanisms, and cocking and firing arrangements, these guns are constructed from cheap materials and are not safe for firing. Handmade firearms manufactured in the Black Sea region of Turkey, particularly in the city of Trabzon, are similar to pistols manufactured by Browning, Luger, Star, Smith and Wesson, Berretta, and MAB. A total of 201 handmade guns referred to the Criminal Police Laboratories for examination from 2003 to 2005 were evaluated with respect to type, number of barrels, size and caliber, rifling, design, mechanism, operability, legality, and similarity to commercial models. We found that most of these handmade guns resembled commercial models in several aspects.

Journal of Forensic …, 2009

Medicine, Science and the Law, 2009

The purpose of this study was to examine autopsy findings from suicidal deaths using firearms in Ankara, Turkey, and to compare the results with those reported from other studies.

Journal of forensic sciences, 2009

Am J Forensic Med Pathol 2014;35:45-49, 2014

The number of the suicides is increasing all around the world. In this study, the cases autopsied between 2000 and 2007 in The Konya Branch of Forensic Medicine Council were retrospectively investigated. Fifty-seven shotgun suicides were determined. The cases were evaluated in terms of their demographic characters, site of entrance wound, the type of the cartridge used, shooting distance, the place of incident, the place of death, motive for suicide, and the presence of previous suicide attempts. The most preferred site of entrance wound was the head with 34 cases (59.7%). Of 34 cases in which the entrance wound was on the head, there was indirect mandibular fracture in 16 cases (47.1%). In 11 cases (19.3%), there observed small ecchymosed abrasions on the finger surfaces, which are thought to have resulted from the trigger kicking back during triggering or the finger having been stuck between the trigger and the trigger guard. It is concluded that there is a need for a legal regulation that makes obtaining of shotguns more difficult and the people who have them are to be educated not to keep them in easily accessible places.

2019

Few of the surgical instruments used in the Ottoman period have survived to the present day. We learn about the Ottoman surgical instruments from illustrated medical manuscripts and prints. In this study, we will consider the illustrations and comments relating to the tools used in removing the lead in gunshot wounds found in a medical manuscript of the 18th century. These are the oldest illustrations of a bullet extractor and related instruments depicted in a medical manuscript of the Ottoman period that we have identified so far. The first instrument used to intervene in the wound is a probe that is inserted into the wound to know the depth of the bullet or arrow and act accordingly. A special tool for bullet extraction is illustrated and introduced as a screw-like instrument invented to remove bullets from injuries. A tool illustrated similar to a forceps is used together with the above mentioned instrument to extract the bullet. In this study it is argued that these tools may have been used before the 18th century.

Forensic Science International, 1994

Research in skeletal biology has a long history in Turkey, but the shift towards the study of conte.mporary people has recently been stimulated by the need for appropriate techniques for forensic application. There is an increasing need for data to determine if populationspecific #standards for age and stature estimation and sex determination are necessary and if so, to develop them. The purpose of this paper is to outline the development of forensic anthropology in Turkey. As has been the case elsewhere, forensic anthropology has its roots in physical anthropology. In Turkey, distinguished pioneers in physical anthropology, such as Sevket A. Kansu and Muzaffer S. Senyiirek, focused on the skeletal biology of the historic and prehistoric inhabitants of Anatolia. Today, research programs are under way in the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Istanbul and the Department of Physical Anthropology in Ankara to include the collection of data on modern Turks. A number of projects dealing with various aspects of forensic anthropology are already in progress, e.g., development of age and sex determination standards for the Turkish population. In addition, several graduate students have also chosen research topics in this field.

Legal Medicine, 2009

The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of suicidal childhood deaths with the use of firearms that occurred from 2000 to 2009 in Antalya. The autopsy reports of the Antalya branch of the Turkish Forensic Medicine Council and judicial records were reviewed retrospectively. There were 60 suicidal deaths between 0 and 18 years of age. Firearms were used in 20 cases (11 males, 9 females). The shotgun (n ¼ 15) was the most frequently used weapon. The site of bullet entries were the chest (n ¼ 6), abdomen (n ¼ 5), right temple (n ¼ 5), mouth (n ¼ 2) and neck (n ¼ 2). Most suicides (n ¼ 16) were in the home. In contrast to many other studies, the most frequently used weapon for suicides was the shotgun in this study.