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Renowned Turkish writer, accused of fleeing after crash, arrested in U.S.

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U.S. authorities on Friday arrested a Turkish author and her 17-year-old son wanted by Turkiye on charges that he was involved in a fatal car crash in Istanbul and then fled the country with the assistance of his mother.

Turkish novelist and poet Eylem Tok and her son, Timur Cihantimur, are scheduled to appear in federal court in Boston following their arrest pursuant to an extradition request from Turkiye.

Their arrests were announced on the social media platform X by , who said they were "captured in the United States in line with our extradition request."

Their arrests came after to issue a red notice for both Tok and her son. A red notice is a request to law enforcement officials to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition.

Defence lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

According to prosecutors, the teenager was driving a Porsche on the night of March 1 when, while speeding around a corner, he crashed into a group of people with all-terrain vehicles. One person, Oguz Murat Aci, died, and four others were injured.

Prosecutors said the teenager immediately fled the scene after saying something like "my life is over." Airport surveillance footage captured him and his mother both at an Egyptair ticket sales office three hours later, prosecutors said.

Tok bought both one-way tickets for a flight from Istanbul to Cairo, Egypt, and they continued on to the United States, landing in New York on March 2, according to court papers.

(Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston and Tuvan Gumrukcu in Ankara; Writing by Burcu Karakas; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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