You Shouldn't Be Dancing (Apologies to the Bee Gees)

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Milliyet Newspaper, 19 August 2018)


You Shouldn't Be Dancing! everyone click here (but not the 
Bee Gees).



Obviously, the crowded dance floor could not accommodate
both the bride's and the groom's partisans.

In Torbalı district of Izmir province the evening before last, the 'kına
gecesi' (night before a wedding when a bride is taken to a public bath
and has her fingers and toes freshly tinged with henna) was held for
the Dilara Bulut and Halil Dal couple.  When the entertainment
portion was announced the groom's family got up to dance but some
others from the bride's side did so, too.

The groom's relatives objected to this and asked the bride's relatives
to sit down.  Two of them, though, Ahmetcan Bulut and Anıl Özmen,
left at the conclusion of the festivities but returned on a motorcycle
with a hunting rifle and began shooting randomly. In the incident,
an innocent bystander who had no connection to either family, Yusuf
Topal (63), was shot in the head and died.

Groom Halil Dal set out after the fleeing assailants in his car and
knocked over their motorcycle, injuring them both. Nevertheless,
the assailants got back on their motorcycle and fled, but they were
arrested by the Gendarmerie at a hospital where they went to have
their injuries treated.  The wedding, which was to be held yesterday,
has been canceled. 



         Torbalı district is south of Izmir city.