Former Survivor contestant Taner Tolga Tarlacı is not dead, says content creator

Claims that former Survivor contestant Taner Tolga Tarlacı died in a prison in the Greek Cypriot south of Cyprus have been denied.

Tarlacı is serving a prison sentence in southern Cyprus for offences including sexual assault and unlawful deprivation of liberty. In recent weeks, posts saying he had died in jail spread quickly on social media again.

Content creator İbrahim Beycanlı said the rumours are untrue. He also said a fifth lawyer has now been hired for Tarlacı and that the legal process is still ongoing.

Beycanlı made one more claim: that some of the death reports were deliberately spread by Tarlacı himself. This is Beycanlı's assertion alone, and no further details were given.

For now, the denial and the lawyer news are the latest word on Tarlacı's situation.