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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 24 March 2021)
"Ain't no balcony high enough that can keep me from
gettin' to you!"
Meral Sivrikaya (50) was experiencing serious marital problems with
her husband Erkan Sivrikaya (52) and the couple entered divorce
proceedings. Two weeks ago, Meral hanım went to live with her
daughter Ozlem Yılmaz in her home on Kaylık Avenue in the
Hacıkaplanlar neighborhood of Denizli's Pamukkale district. The
night before last, Erkan bey, who is a construction worker, went to
his daughter's apartment building and was denied entry into his
daughter's 5th-floor flat so he came up with a frightful plan.
Erkan bey had brought a rope with him and hung it from the building's
roof. He first descended from the roof to a 6th-floor balcony, where
he remained in a vacant flat for a while and wrote on the windows:
"Return to your nest. Honor. No pardon." Then, Erkan bey tied the rope
to the balcony railing and lowered himself to his daughter's 5th-floor
balcony and opened the door with a screwdriver.
Duty, country, honor (!)
Meral hanım, who was sleeping in the living room, awoke in shock at
seeing her estranged husband. Erkan bey tried to convince Meral hanım
to come back to him, but in vain. So he pulled out a knife and chased
the mother of his two children to the balcony, where she had gone to
shout for help, and stabbed her multiple times. Hearing her screams,
Özlem hanım and her husband rushed to help.
Neighbors called the police and while they waited they detained Erkan
bey. One of the neighbors, Ali Çelimli, said that "we heard the woman's
screams and ran to catch the man, who was shouting 'She betrayed me!
This is a matter of honor!'. You can't kill a woman and call it a matter
of honor."
Erkan bey was put in jail and Meral hanım was buried yesterday. A
wooden board served as her gravestone and her maiden name 'Kayhan'
was written on it.
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