{"id":69524,"date":"2013-04-13T12:16:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T09:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=69524"},"modified":"2014-01-08T02:35:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T00:35:33","slug":"wife-of-swiss-consul-in-istanbul-may-face-three-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/04\/13\/wife-of-swiss-consul-in-istanbul-may-face-three-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Wife of Swiss consul in \u0130stanbul may face three years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The wife of the Swiss consul in \u0130stanbul, who hit a motorbike and fled the scene of the accident despite injuring the driver and the passenger, now faces charges that could result in up to three years in prison.<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69525\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69525\" alt=\"Wife of Swiss consulate and head of Chancery Andrea K\u00f6ppel (L) allegedly fled the scene after hitting a married couple in Istanbul\u2019s Bebek district. DHA photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/n_40709_4.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/n_40709_4.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/n_40709_4-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wife of Swiss consulate and head of Chancery Andrea K\u00f6ppel (L) allegedly fled the scene after hitting a married couple in Istanbul\u2019s Bebek district. DHA photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Driving a jeep, Andrea KOppel, wife of Consul and Head of Chancery Florian KOppel at the Consulate General of Switzerland in \u0130stanbul, hit a motorbike driven by Dogan Durmus \u0130nal in Bebek in February. The accident injured both driver and passenger. \u0130nal&#8217;s wife, Filiz, sustained serious injuries and was hospitalized. KOppel fled the scene of the accident. She later went to a police station and told police she had panicked after the accident and had driven away.<\/p>\n<p>\u0130stanbul Public Prosecutor Resat Ugur Soysal has recently prepared an indictment, seeking a prison sentence of between eight months and three years for Andrea KOppel on charges of injury by conscious negligence.<\/p>\n<p>Soysal said in the indictment that KOppel had drank too much alcohol, which led her to lose control while driving and hit a motorbike, leaving Filiz \u0130nal critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Zaman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wife of the Swiss consul in \u0130stanbul, who hit a motorbike and fled the scene of the accident despite injuring the driver and the passenger, now faces charges that could result in up to three years in prison. Driving a jeep, Andrea KOppel, wife of Consul and Head of Chancery Florian KOppel at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":69525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[607],"tags":[9017],"class_list":["post-69524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-switzerland","tag-andrea-koppel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}