"Beat & Release": His Very Skewed Sense of 'Honor'

 türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 11 December 2020)

She's masked-up, but COVID is the least of her worries.

In Çiğli district of Izmir, Savaş D. saw his ex-wife Dilan İ. leaving her

home with Cuma B. so he came up alongside the car the couple was

sitting in and fired on it with his 'pompalı tüfenk' (pump-action rifle).

Cuma B. was wounded in his midsection and Savaş D. bundled Dilan

hanım into his own car, kidnapping her.  

Police subsequently raided a mountain home in Foça and rescued

Dilan hanım, taking Savaş D. and his brother Yakup D. into custody.

The 'D' brothers were jailed and Dilan hanım was taken to a safe 

house.

Dilan hanım explained that "I'd been getting threats from my ex-

husband continually so I got a restraining order against him. On 

the day of the incident, he said he would shoot me if I didn't get

into his car.  After cutting my mouth, nose and ear as a lesson (!),

he said he would kill me to avenge his honor.  We're divorced!

What honor?!  I started a new life with my children, whose 

psychology is in turmoil because of him.  I want to have my

voice heard! I don't want to die and leave my children motherless.

I'm under guard but my relatives are still being threatened."

                         Foça is a bit NW of Izmir city.