According to sources she is the daughter of Huseyin Basaran, the chairman of Turkey's Basaran Investment Holding, and is understood to have been in line to succeed her father. Meanwhile Ms Basaran was on the board of the company, after graduating from Koc University in Istanbul and continuing her studies at a business school.
Moreover according to her social media, she was the owner of a Ramada resort in Turkey and a yacht firm. Recently Ms Basaran was engaged to Murat Gezer and was due to marry next month at the Ciragan Saray, an Ottoman-era palace which is one of the most prominent wedding venues in Turkey. Further according to reports, three of the other hens on the trip were due to marry this summer, and one was pregnant.
Sources added the group wore matching hen
dressing gowns in the last photo they had taken together, shared with the hash
tag minasbachelorette, and taken at the One and Only Royal Mirage luxury hotel
in Dubai. Furthermore witnesses in a village near the crash claim they saw
flames coming from the plane's engine before it went down. According to Iranian
news agency Fars the aircraft's black boxes have been found and will be handed
to Turkish authorities.
