Body of 21-year-old Rojin found on the bank of Lake Van

The body of Rojin Kabaiş, a university student who had been missing for more than two weeks, has been found on the shore of Lake Van, according to Turkey’s Minister of the Interior, Ali Yerlikaya.

The 21-year-old girl had last been seen on 27 September when she left her on-campus dormitory in Van after dinner. Her housemates found her mobile phone and several personal belongings on the shore of Lake Van and notified the dormitory management, who reported her missing to the police a day later and notified her family.

Rojin Kabaiş was brought from Amed (tr. Diyarbakir) to Van by her father two days before her disappearance. She lived in a student dormitory and studied education. Her family believes that suicide is out of the question. Her father, Nizamettin Kabaiş, said that his daughter had moved to Van with great hope and had no enemies. “The night she disappeared, she called her mother and said that she was buying a few things at the market and would return to the dormitory,” said her father.