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Turkey-AIDS: Turk who passed AIDS virus to wife sentenced to 27 months in jail

Agence France-Presse - September 11, 2000 click here for portuguese language version click here for francais language version click here for espanol language version click here for deutsch language version

ANKARA, Sept 11 (AFP) - A Turkish man who allegedly hid his HIV-positive condition from his wife and infected her with the deadly virus was sentenced Monday to 27 months in jail, Anatolia news agency reported.

The court in the city of Antalya, on Turkey's Mediterrenean coast, ruled that Umit Ulukaya, 25, had endangered the life of his wife by hiding his disease and not taking any precaution during sexual intercourse.

The prosecution had charged Ulukaya with attempted murder and called for a life sentence for him.

Ulukaya, who was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1997, claimed that his wife was aware of his condition when they got married in March 1999.

Sevgi Ulukaya, 23, filed a lawsuit against her husband in July last year, accusing him of hiding his disease and passing the AIDS-causing virus to her.

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