Documented and true figures
Homicides that are not reported in the press cannot be counted, so the figure in the database is the documented one and falls below the official figure. The undocumented part is modelled using the official series of convicts by province and the official figures published for the year; the estimate is the documented count plus the expected number of those not documented.
Turkey's official homicide figure is published on the data portal of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime with a delay of one to two years. For years whose official figure has been published, no estimate is made and the official figure is given.
The share the press captures varies between provinces and rises where populations are large. The estimate is therefore given at national level and not at province level. The details of the calculation and its formulas are on the methodology page.
Methodology: the estimate · How to read crime data
What is counted
A homicide is the intentional killing of a person; in Turkish law the offence is called intentional killing. Offenders who take their own lives, traffic and workplace accidents, fires and deaths in security operations are not counted. Where more than one person is killed in a case, each is counted separately.