Overview

• Turkish officials apprehended the 65-year-old ex-partner in Hatay Province under an international arrest warrant
• The Aschaffenburg public prosecutor’s office has lodged extradition papers to transfer the suspect to Germany, a process officials say could take some time
• Investigators credit modern DNA phenotyping and 15 public tips generated by a March ZDF cold-case broadcast for focusing the probe
• The detention marks the culmination of close cooperation between the Polizeipräsidium Unterfranken and Turkish law-enforcement agencies
• The case exemplifies Germany’s strategy of combining forensic advances with media appeals to resolve decades-old homicides