{"id":304671,"date":"2026-02-18T18:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304671\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:26:10","slug":"a-vanished-mother-an-empty-car-and-a-family-left-in-limbo-fifteen-years-after-esra-uyrun-vanished-the-search-endures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304671\/","title":{"rendered":"A vanished mother, an empty car and a family left in limbo: Fifteen years after Esra Uyrun vanished, the search endures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">What happened to Esra Uyrun? How did the Dublin woman\u2019s car end up in Wicklow? And why has nobody come forward with information to help find her? This month her sister Berna Fidan has returned to Ireland seeking answers to these questions and more\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Berna Fidan, the sister of Esra Uyrun, in Bray in 2023. Photo: Mick Kelly. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a3c863e7-7f20-42d6-8fa4-2805089f8f24.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Berna Fidan, the sister of Esra Uyrun, in Bray in 2023. Photo: Mick Kelly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cNothing has changed over the past 15 years. We&#8217;ve had no leads, no one has come forward with anything positive. It&#8217;s just such a mystery. I can&#8217;t believe somebody just goes missing and nobody knows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Defying the silence that Berna Fidan has been met with after her sister, Esra Uyrun, vanished from her Dublin home all those years ago, she will continue to do what she has been doing ever since \u2013 return to Bray, County Wicklow, where Esra\u2019s empty car was found. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What happened to Esra Uyrun? How did the Dublin woman\u2019s car end up in Wicklow? And why has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,10687],"class_list":["post-304671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-tom-galvin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}