Mongolian national Tuvshinbayar E., 32, was arrested in Istanbul for rape and robbery after he allegedly stole the cellphone of a 22-year-old woman before raping her in the city's Şişli district on Dec. 23.
The victim, identified as A.Ç., was a German citizen of Turkish origin and was in Turkey as an exchange student. She was walking to the dormitory where she was staying after a night out in Istanbul's Şişli district when the suspect approached her and tried to steal her cellphone.
When she resisted, the suspect dragged her and hurled her down the 4-meter high wall of a mosque. He then took her to a shed in the mosque's courtyard and raped her, authorities said. The young woman suffered from a broken waist while police identified the suspect, who was staying in a house near the scene, by scanning security cameras overlooking the scene.
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