A 33-year-old Canberra man has been charged with raping a woman four times in a car after meeting her via the dating app Bumble.
Hakan Halit Eren, of Isabella Plains, faced the ACT Magistrates Court on Monday after police arrested him at a cafe in Tuggeranong, in Canberra's south, on Sunday.
Police say Mr Eren met the woman at 8:00pm on Friday, September 9 at the inner-suburban Kingston Hotel after using the app to communicate with her. He identified himself as "Al".
The pair spent two hours at the hotel drinking and talking before they walked to the woman's car parked outside.
Court documents show the pair kissed before Mr Eren allegedly asked the woman if she had ever been to Lennox Gardens in Yarralumla, to which she replied "no".
A police statement says the woman then agreed to go to the gardens, "however, they had a conversation where she stated that it did not mean that she wanted to have sex with him, and he seemed offended that she was insinuating that was what he wanted".
The pair drove to the gardens, where they kissed on the back seat of the woman's car and Mr Eren performed oral sex on her, to which she consented.
The statement says Mr Eren then allegedly pulled down his pants, "which made [the woman] feel uncomfortable", and sexually penetrated her four times.
She told police she said no each time and pushed him away.
Mr Eren then allegedly pushed the woman's head down towards his penis and encouraged her to masturbate him, which she did "so he wouldn't continue to force her to perform oral sex" or penetrate her, court documents say.
The woman then allegedly pushed Mr Eren away. The documents say he asked "what was wrong with her" before repeating that "this had never happened to him before".
The woman dropped Mr Eren at a city bus stop. She then returned home and called her brother, sister and a friend in an upset state, telling them she had been sexually assaulted.
She reported the alleged assault to police the next day before going to hospital for a forensic medical examination.
Defendant says 'pants were on entire time'
Mr Eren told police he met the woman at the Kingston Hotel and later kissed her in the back seat of her car until she said "stop".
After that, he said they returned to the front seats and she dropped him off in the city.
He said they did not have intercourse and he had his pants on the entire time.
Mr Eren now faces four counts of sexual intercourse without consent.
Magistrate Ken Archer granted him bail on the condition he surrender his Turkish passport.
His lawyer told the court Mr Eren had "significant concerns" about the effects the case would have on his Australian citizenship application.
Mr Eren is expected to face court again later this month.
