Pelin Kaya ‘felt safe in Malta’, family says in interview

The young Turkish woman killed in Wednesday's horrific incident had told her family that she felt safe in Malta and that was why she intended to stay in the country, her grieving uncle told Times of Malta.
Aykan Ceylan said he had a conversation with Pelin Kaya, 30, the last time she visited him in Istanbul and he had tried to persuade her to return to live in Turkey.
But she assured him she was safe in Malta.

“The last time she was in Istanbul, I tried to persuade her to stay but she told me she had a great love for Malta and she insisted on staying because it is such a safe country.
Pelin Kaya's uncle Aykan Ceylan and her sister Derya Kaya outside the lawcourts on Thursday. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier
“We trusted her instinct,” he said, flanked by his lawyers, Shazoo Ghaznavi, Charlon Gouder and Ramona Attard and assisted by an interpreter.
“Of course, such situations happen in many countries, however, we know that some people cannot be trusted and some of those people are in Malta as well. That very person took Pelin’s life.
“We do not want revenge, we want to make sure that he is judged by the law and that Pelin gets the justice that she deserves.”
Pelin, an interior...