20-Year-Old Turkish Woman Arrested For Posing As Doctor

A Turkish woman who was posing as a doctor for over a year was arrested after investigators found she had no medical qualifications.

The Turkish woman, identified as Ayse Ozkiraz worked at a state hospital in Cerkezkoy. Ozkiraz posed as a paediatrics specialist when colleagues became suspicious about her lack of medical knowledge.

The 20-year-old claimed to have graduated from Istanbul University's Capa Medical School. Her responses raised the hospital staff's suspicion, which led to them quizzing her about standard medical procedures.

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Turkish Woman Poses As Doctor

When the fake doctor started giving evasive and contradictory answers, managers were informed about her suspicious behaviour.

The hospital administrators proceeded to call the police, who searched the woman's house and found several doctor's ID cards, fake university cards, and fake degrees. Ozkiraz was found to have no education beyond high school and a collection of hospital ID cards and surgical garments were confiscated.

Reportedly, Ozkiraz not only lied to the hospital and the staff she also lied to her family about her medical qualifications and job. The fake doctor has no education beyond high school.

Ozkiraz said in a statement that when she was a student in high school, her family wanted her to go medical school. She said, "They believed in me and thought that I would get a high score."

After graduating from high school, Ozkiraz gave the university exam but was unsuccessful.

Ozkiraz told her mother, stepfather, and her stepbrothers that she had a place at the Capa Medical Faculty and prepared the documents and showed them to her family.

Ozkiraz was arrested and charged with opposing the Law on the Practice of the Style of Medicine and Medical sciences.

Despite Ozkiraz's confession, her mother Semra Arslan believes that her daughter is innocent. She told a Turkish news outlet that she ate meals in the operating theatres and is in photographs with the head doctor.

Arslan said, "Are these all lies? We can't understand anything!"