In the Gülistan Doku investigation, Burçin Kahraman, the wife of detained Colonel Ali Kahraman, claimed that former Governor Tuncay Sonel's Japan holiday expenses were covered by a businessman from Ordu.
Burçin Kahraman said in her statement to the Erzurum Chief Public Prosecutor's Office that she saw Sonel and his daughter buy two large suitcases on the last day of the holiday. Ali Çimen, the lawyer for the Doku family, directed 5 questions at Sonel and his daughter.