"Beat & Release": Hairdresser Gets President's Attention, But Too Late for His Victim

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 28 January 2021)

                     Hairdressers have access to sharp objects.

The police forensic medicine lab has determined that Ceylan Gündüz 

(29), a nurse who was stabbed by her former boyfriend, hairdresser

Nazir Ilgın, in Beşiktaş, Istanbul, has lost the use of some of her 

fingers and there is a lasting scar on her face.  Since Ceylan hanım

can no longer use some of her fingers she has had to abandon her

nursing career and return to her family in Adana. 

On 6 June 2020, Ilgın beat his former girlfriend Ceylan hanım and,

based on her complaint, Ilgın was taken into custody but released on

judicial supervision. Two days later, though, Ilgın attacked and stabbed

Ceylan hanım, wounding her on her hand and neck.  This time he was 

jailed. 

After Ilgın was released the first time, President Erdoğan commented

during a meeting: "How in the world  was he released!" (so it didn't

happen again - but not soon enough for Ceylan hanım.)

                                  Hairdresser to the scars.