COVID Collateral Damage Continues, This Time a Cesspool Drowning

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 30 April 2021)

                   Even Batman couldn't save him.

The night before last in Selçuklu district of Konya province, police got 

a tip that a café that should have been closed because of COVID 

restrictions was open and people were smoking hookah pipes.  During

the police raid on the café, male nurse Tevfik Sevi (33), one of the 

customers, panicked and fled to the building's basement.  There, he fell

into a one-meter deep cesspool.  (!)

Police fined four people in the café for violating COVID restrictions 

and as they were leaving one of the café employees told them that 

there was someone in the basement cesspool.  The fire department was

summoned and the firefighters took Sevi out of the cesspool but he was

already dead.  The body of the father of two children, who worked at 

Necmettin Erbakan University's Meram Medical Faculty, was taken to 

the hospital's morgue for an autopsy.  

It turned out that police had raided this same café on 20 April and fined

10 people a total of 63,000 TL (about $8,000). The café owners had 

been written up and the building sealed.

TV Star Shows TV Hubby & Son Who's The Boss

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(Milliyet Newspaper, 28 April 2021)

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(Hürriyet Newspapaer, 28 April 2021)

              Maybe it shouldn't have been such a surprise.

TV star Hülya Avşar has imposed her wrath on both her TV husband

and TV son in real life. During a scene in the "dizi" (nighttime soap

opera) "Masumiyet", Avşar slapped her "husband" Ertuğrul Postoğlu

so hard that the blow dislocated Postoğlu's chin bone. (!)

Making amends, Avşar took Postoğlu to Akademik Hospital, where

her cousin Dr. Erol Avşar works.  After treatment, Postoğlu was able

to return to the "dizi" set a few days later.

As for her TV son Serkay Tütüncü, Avşar, who has a phobia about

elevators, made Tütüncü walk up 14 flights of stairs with her to the

"dizi" set. (!)

                            Elevators are for sissies!

"Beat & Release": Pregnant Algerian "Fly-girl" Mugs 3 Women in Kadıköy, Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 27 April 2021)

In Kadıköy, Istanbul, a pregnant woman with a knife stole telephones

from three women.  The pregnant mugger wore a mini-skirt and a t-shirt

and had a large spider & net tattoo on her hand.  Also, her arms were

covered with razor cuts and she wore a pitch-black wig.  She approached

her victims, saying a few strange things in a number of languages, 

and then pulled out a large knife from her waistband.  The tale of this

pregnant mugger spread around Kadıköy via the rumor mill.

Last Friday evening at about seven-thirty o'clock, Rümeyra İrez and 

Elif Öner, who are studying cinema-TV, were sitting in front of an

apartment building on Ali Kalfa Street, in the Yeldeğirmeni 

neighborhood when the pregnant mugger approached them and said

to Elif hanım "you've been dead for a long time and they buried you."

The pregnant mugger then demanded the two girls' telephones, taking

out the huge 30-centimeter knife from under her t-shirt to make her 

point.   One of the girls threw her phone on the ground, distracting 

the attacker, and the girls fled.  

                        You go girl!

The day before yesterday, the mysterious pregnant mugger pulled out

her knife on another woman near the Bull Statue in Kadıköy.  The 

victim's screams attracted the police, who arrested the attacker.  She 

has been identified as S.N.E. K. (coincidentally or not, the Turkish 

word for a "housefly" is "sinek" !) an Algerian, 22-years-old.  

She is 8-months pregnant and after each attack, she changed her outfit 

and rented a hotel room, where police found many different outfits and 

wigs.  In her statement to police, S.N.E.K. said that "I have 'cin'" (evil

spirits).  After a court hearing, the woman was put under house arrest

but released.

 

COVID Bars Humans From His Coffee Shop, So Cats & Dogs Replace Them

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 26 April 2021)

             The coffee here is purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect!

Recep Alözkan (78) lives in Tekirdağ's Hayrabolu district.  During the 

COVID pandemic he has had to close his coffee shop to humans but has

opened it instead to 50 street cats and 5 dogs, feeding them and providing

them with shelter.

Alözkan explained that "when deaths rose because of the virus, customers

stopped coming so I opened up my coffee shop to stray cats.  I feed them

and take care of them.  The Hayrabolu municipality heard about it and 

the other day they provided some food for the cats to add to what I can

give them.  Mostly, though, I look after them with my own resources.

Sometimes dogs come, too, and I feed them.  My wife died two years ago

so since then I've passed the time looking after the stray animals."

Nedim Başaran, who lives in Umurbey village with Alözkan, praised his

neighbor's behavior, noting that " Recep spends his entire income on 

these cats.  We try to help out from time to time, as well.  He's had the

coffee shop for years and always looked after the animals.  If he didn't

they might cause us problems in the village."

Another neighbor, Birol Alagöz, said that "Recep used to look after 10-15

cats but today the number is around 40-50.  There are some people who

criticize him for this and I feel bad about that.  After his wife died, he 

dedicated himself to these animals.  He gets bread and boils bones for

the juice to make food for them.  We try to help but it's not enough. We

expect the city and the district to provide him with more support."

TNT Nails Edition: Colombian Specials in Bursa and Beyoğlu Batterers in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 25 April 2021)

recidivist visitors click here for a 2018 TNT report 

about Colombians and others haunting Bursa.

              From across the sea, they nailed Turkey.

In Nilüfer district, Bursa, at five o'clock on the evening of 11 January, 

Osman K. and friend C.P. (49) were riding in a car headed for a bank to

deposit 1.6 million TL (about $200,000) that Osman K. had just gotten

from the sale of a plot of land.  When they came to Ata Boulevard, one

of the car's tires went flat so the two friends changed the tire.  But when

they got back in the car the bag of money was missing. (!)

Police arrived and determined that the nail that caused the flat tire was

specially made and that Osman K. and his friend C.P. had been followed,

based on MOBESE (street camera system) video.  After some research,

police identified the suspects as Z.M., L.G.O. and A.G.O.  from

Colombia (!).   The trio had previously used the same technique for 

robberies in Aydın, Adana, Samsun, Gaziantep, Izmir and Antalya. 

The three suspects were arrested in Istanbul and sent to Antalya, where

they were jailed.  They had stolen 2.5 million TL in seven different

provinces.  Osman K. learned from police that his money had been

sent by the suspects to Colombia and he lamented that "the thieves

stole the most money from me.  I don't know what I'm going to do."

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(Milliyet Newspaper, 25 April 2021)

One passer-by, Jerry, was heard to say derisively

"and you want to be my latex salesman?!"

In Beyoğlu, Istanbul, an argument erupted between a man and a woman

in a grassy area.  The man ripped a picket from a nearby fence and began

to beat the woman with the board and the nails sticking out of it.  

However (!), the woman was able to rest the picket from the man's hands

and began to beat him, to the point that he collapsed on the ground.  

Passers-by intervened and the injured man was taken to a hospital.  One

of them said "all of sudden they started beating each other! First the man

beat the woman and then  vice versa, causing the man to pass out."

 

                              Pickets don't beat people...

4 Kilos of Fake Gold for $130,000 and a (Fake) Money-back Guarantee

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(Milliyet Newspaper, 24 April 2021)

                                Have I got a deal for you!

In Beşiktaş, Istanbul, nine Africans who sold 4 kilograms of fake gold to

an individual for $130,000 (!) have been arrested.  The suspects' 

counterfeiting press and fake gold were seen on video footage.

The incident occurred on 17 April at a hotel in Beşiktaş.  Burhan Ö. (47)

agreed with people he met in the Aksaray section of the city to buy 4

kilograms of gold for $130,000.  Next, Burhan Ö. and his wife met 

with the suspects at a luxury hotel on Saray Avenue in the Cihannüma 

neighborhood of Beşiktaş, where the suspect turned over 4 kilograms

of fake gold to them.  

The suspects took the $130,000 from Burhan Ö. and told him that 

they put it in a strongbox in a hotel room and if a problem developed

with the gold Burhan Ö. could come and get his money back out of

the strongbox.    

                                          Out of Africa

A day later, Burhan Ö. and his wife went to a jeweler with the gold, 

only to find out that it was fake.  Burhan Ö. called the suspects, who

readily gave him back the money in counterfeit dollars (!) and left

the hotel.  Burhan Ö. subsequently realized that, like the gold, the

dollars were fake, too, so he went to the police.   

The police determined the identities and addresses of the hoodwinkers

and arrested the nine Africans in a flat on Dalyan Street in the 

Harmantepe neighborhood of the city's Kağıthane district. The suspects

claimed that they printed "original money" with a machine they designed

and sent videos of their operation to prospective customers to establish

trust.  

At the gang's operations center, police found a large amount of 

dollars, Euros and the counterfeit money printing machine.  The police

also obtained video of Burhan Ö. entering the hotel, the suspects' 

printing machine and a large amount of fake foreign currency. 

 

 

 I'd turn back if I were you, Burhan bey.

"Beat & Release": 44 Stabs Somehow Doesn't Qualify as "Monstrous Savagery"

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 23 April 2021)

          Birthday extra - one more stab wound than her age.

Ersin Kormaz (44) and Nurgül Boz (43) began living together 7 years

ago in Ümraniye, Istanbul, and their daughter is now a six-years-old. 

Korkmaz went to prison for a crime but was released on leave because

of the COVID pandemic.  

On 10 April the couple got into an argument sparked by jealousy and

Korkmaz stabbed Nurgül hanım 44 times (!) with a kitchen knife, 

killing her.  In his statement to police, Korkman said he suspected that

Nurgül hanım had cheated on him.  The public prosecutor, though, 

suspected that Korkmaz said this to try to get a reduced sentence.  So,

he charged Korkmaz with "murder with monstrous savagery" and 

asked the court for the most extreme life sentence.

Facing the court, Korkmaz explained that "I beat my wife a couple of

times before.  That day, I was suspicious of some phone messages she

received.  We fought and I began to stab her with a knife I grabbed 

from the kitchen.  I don't remember how many times I stabbed her."

The court committee decided that Kormaz had not killed Nurgül 

hanım with "monstrous savagery" and gave him a life sentence for

only "murder with intent". (!)

Alert Elon Musk! "Driverless" Car Gets Stuck on Pedestrian Overpass!

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 22 April 2021)

                        You can't get there from here.

In the Yenibaraj neighborhood of Adana's Seyhan district, the driver

of a car bearing plate number 01 ADR 763 tried to drive his vehicle

across a pedestrian overpass but he got stuck (!).   

Passers-by who noticed the situation called police, who arrived and 

asked Sefer Ş. and İbrahim S., who were in the car, which one of 

them was the driver.  They said in response that neither one of them 

was the driver. (!)

          Maybe he should have taken the long way home.

In any event, police charged both of them with violating the COVID

curfew and fined them.  After an hour of work, the car was removed

from the overpass by a tow truck.

 

Alimony Victims Unite! Join the March on Istanbul!

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(Milliyet Newspaper, 21 April 2021)

how we got here click here for the first TNT report.

                Putting his shoe leather where his mouth is.

Mustafa Duman (32) of Pehlivan village in Kastamonu province married

A.R.B. D. in October 2017, after having met her on the internet two years 

before.  After the wedding, A.R.B.D. returned to her family in Istanbul

and Duman hasn't seen her since then.  But now Duman has to pay his

ex-wife of one day 700 TL (about $90) per month in alimony. (!)

To protest this situation, Duman is walking all the way from his village

to Istanbul.  Now in the eighth day of his trek, Duman has reached 

Sakarya, declaring that there are many alimony victims like himself and

the time has come for a solution.  

Duman, who hopes to reach Istanbul on Friday, lamented that "the 

creditors and repossessors are at my door every day.  The other family's 

lawyer is trying to scare me with various threats. They're telling me that

the total alimony has accumulated to 20,000 TL and they're sending 

enforcement orders.  I haven't been able to get a divorce for four years 

but because of her suit's judgement, I have to pay 700 TL per month

in alimony.  There are lots of victims like me.  When I see the messages

they send to me I get sad and cry."

                       The long march against alimony!

"Beat & Release": Like a Broken Record

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 20 April 2021)

                          Hmmm this looks familiar.

On 9 December 2020 in Ereğli, Zonguldak, Çağla Çiçekçi (22) and her

housemate/ex-boyfriend (!) Ufuk Özel had dinner and drinks.  (Perhaps

inevitably,) an argument erupted and Özel choked Çağla hanım to the 

point of fainting.  Then, Özel got a knife from the kitchen counter and 

wounded Çağla hanım in her neck and abdomen.  

Çağla hanım (somehow) escaped through a window and was taken to a

hospital.  Özel was arrested and jailed.  Following the completion of the

investigation, Özel was charged with "murder with intent to kill" and

"insulting" (!), with an attendant jail term of from 9 to 17 years.  

However, Özel filed a suit of his own against Çağla hanım for "wounding

with intent" and "insulting". 

Maybe a housemate/ex-boyfriend isn't the best for a 

dinner and drinks partner.

The trial will begin in the coming days in an Ereğli court.  Çağla hanım

stated that "while we were chatting an argument erupted. I wanted him

to leave so he choked me and I passed out.  When I came to I was in

the living room and he was stabbing me.  I saw the knife in his hand and

the blood.  He was crying.  That's when I jumped out the window to save

myself.  I don't remember anything else." 

Continuing, Çağla hanım explained that "I've been through a very bad

time.  My psychology isn't at all normal.  I can't stay at home alone. I'm

having panic attacks and nightmares.  Whenever I see my wounds I

relive those moments.  The trial is starting. Let justice prevail."

Easing One-Way Travel to Germany the Municipal Grey Way

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(Sözcü Newspaper, 19 April 2021)

 Courtesy of "50 Shades of Grey" Municipal Travel Agency 

A "municipal" human trafficking scandal that broke out in Malatya and

spread to Elazığ and Ordu, has turned into an international crisis.  

Germany has begun an investigation into the illicit use of Turkey's "grey 

passports" that are only given to consulate workers, officials and national 

athletes in Turkey for visa-free travel.  

Berlin has asked the Ankara via the Turkish Foreign Ministry to explain 

how grey passports were provided to unauthorized individuals. If it is 

determined that international law was violated by an arm of the state, all 

Turkish passports will come under suspicion.  

CHP (opposition party) parliamentarian Seyit Torun stated that "our

party's member on the Malatya Yeşilyurt municipal council broke this

scandal.  Many similar incidents have occurred in other AKP (ruling

party) municipalities.  For example, an investigation has started in

Elazığ's Akçakiraz, Arıcak and Baskil municipalities.  But this is only

a part of a larger scandal involving tens of municipalities that enabled

hundreds of people to flee abroad

                                 Germany is for lovers.

An investigation has been initiated by the Hannover public prosecutor

into the firm Mega Kilit GmbH and its owner Ersin Kilit, who played 

a key role in illicitly sending 43 people from Malatya to Germany.  

Kilit is accused of  preparing false documents and forgery, violation of

German laws regarding foreigners and human trafficking.   In addition,

the matter has been taken up by the assemblies in Lower Saxony and 

Bavaria. 

Kilit cooperated not just with Malatya's Yeşilyurt municipality, but also

with other towns to send 'visitors' to Germany who never returned to 

Turkey.  Hannover Mayor Belit Onay gave a statement in the

investigation but it has been learned that Onay had no knowledge of

the issue.  

An effort is underway to determine whether Kilit, who works in the

construction, automation and gastronomy (!) sectors, was at the center of

all these illicit activities.  Most recently, most of those who went to 

Germany illegally on the grey passports were from Bingöl province, the 

home province of Mega Kilit GmbH's owners.  These individuals melted 

into the construction and gambling casino sectors in Germany.

                Learn to say "Guten tag!" before going.

Coal-based Cosmetics Somehow Just Didn't Catch On

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(Sözcü Newspaper, 18 April 2021)

       Models posing for TKİ product publicity campaign.

Without any experience in the cosmetic sector, the Turkey Coal 

Operations (TKİ) organization (!) decided to plunge in, spending

4.7 million TL (about $600,000) to produce a hair-removal product

and 11 other cosmetic materials under the brand name "Elegance".

Another 2.2 million TL was spent by TKİ on commercials to 

advertise its line of products.  However (!), when the TKİ products

did not catch on with consumers, TKİ had to destroy a portion of its

"Elegance" inventory and distributed 76,405 packages of the hair-

removal cream to public sector workers for free as the product's 

expiration date approached.  

CHP (opposition party) parliamentarian Levent Gök posed this question

to Energy Minister Fatih Dönmez: "what official procedures have 

begun in regard to those responsible for this waste of money?"  In his

response, Minister Dönmez stated that there had been 2,187,000 TL

spent for these products. 

However, the Sayıştay (government accounting bureau) report noted

that up to 2018, 2,186,000 TL had been spent on advertising alone and

4.7 million TL for production.   TKİ General Director Hasan Hüseyin

Erdoğan, speaking at a meeting of t the Grand National Assembly's KİT 

(public sector economic initiatives) commission, explained that "the

cosmetic products that were produced were distributed as gifts.  There

was never an intent to sell them commercially."

                          Oxymoronic brand-naming.

"Beat & Release": Biker Gang Buddies Severed from Polite Society

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 16 April 2021)

avuncular dismemberment click here for TNT's report

from 2019.

must have been the season click here for another TNT

report from March 2019 about an Antalya

dismemberment.

                                   Gang (dis)members.

On 27 February 2019, two severed legs were found in a garbage container

in Kadıköy, Istanbul. The body's hands, head and trunk were found 

elsewhere.  The murder victim was identified as Rifat Rıza Öztürk, who

worked in the tractor parts import-export business.  

The deceased's nephew and co-worker Fahrettin Öztürk, along with his

motorcycle gang buddies Ferhat Yılmaz, Fatih Demir and Turgut 

Kundakçı were taken into custody in connection with the murder and 

jailed.  

According to the indictment, after killing his uncle, Fahrettin Öztürk

got help from his motorcycle gang buddy Ferhat Yılmaz to cut up the

body.  Subsequently, Fatih Demir and Turgut Kundakçı helped the other

two to distribute the body parts in garbage containers around Istanbul. 

The court in Bakırköy reached a decision on the case yesterday,

sentencing Fahrettin Öztürk and Ferhat Yılmas to life in prison, plus

a two-year jail term and 1,500 TL (about $200) fine for having

unlicensed guns (!).  Fatih Demir and Turgut Kundakçı received 

sentences of four years each for destroying evidence of a crime.

Rifat Rıza Öztürk's daughter Gamze Vasfiye Öztürk told reporters 

after the verdict was announced that "we've waited for 26 months

for justice to find its place.  We waited 10 days for my father's 

body parts to be found so we could bury him, but without his hands.

Thankfully, justice has been served and even though our pain cannot 

be forgotten, at least our minds are at peace."

Air Conditioned Video Blackmail in Denizli

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 16 April 2021)

                    Politics and the black arts. Inseparable.

The investigation into the blackmail attempt against Teoman Sancar, a 

Denizli parliamentarian, has been completed.  Jail sentences of up to 9

years each have been requested for five suspects, one of them a 

policeman, for "blackmail" and "violation of personal privacy".  

Sancar was forced to resign from the CHP party (main opposition 

party) because of the scandal.  According to the related indictment,

Fatih Selamet (26) was an acquaintance of Sancar from some years

ago.   Taking advantage of this acquaintance, Selamet made a blackmail

plan, telling his brother-in-law Bülent Acar, a policeman in Kuşadası,

that "we'll take a video and blackmail him."

Acar agreed to the plan and brought in friends Sadık Sivri and Fatih

Kıntaş as partners.  In accordance with the plan, Selamet called 

Sancar and invited him to a flat in Denizli "to discuss a matter."  Once

Sancar accepted, Sadık Sivri and Fatih Kıntaş came from Kuşadası to

Denizli, entered the flat and put a camera inside the air conditioner in

a room.  Then they began to wait in a van parked nearby.

In the indictment, it is stated that when Sancar got drunk and passed out

Selamat took some obscene videos (!).  After a while, Sancar left the flat 

and Selamet put the videos taken by the camera in the air conditioner on 

a computer, erasing all but the obscene parts.  

Subsequently, Fatih Karakoç, a new member of the blackmail group,

demanded money from Sancar, who balked.  Thinking that the video

might be sold to someone, Sancar contacted the public prosecutor and

filed a complaint.  The five suspects taken into custody and three of them 

were jailed.  Now they each face nine years in prison.

          Kuşadası is on the Aegean coast, west of Denizli.

Hoodwinker Taxi Driver and Cohort Overexposed

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 14 April 2021)

   Very fussy about the bills - perfers Benjamin Franklin.

On 14 March in Istanbul, Chechenistan citizen E.S. and two relatives 

got into a taxi at Eminönü and agreed to pay the driver 30 TL (about $4) 

to take them to Taksim Square.  E.S. took 30 TL from her purse and 

handed it to the driver, who objected to the "old bills" and asked E.S. to 

give him new bills instead. 

In the meantime, though, the driver with sleight of hand took $4,000

from E.S.'s purse.  E.S. noticed this and asked the driver to give the

dollars back.  As an argument broke out, an individual approached

the taxi, as if to help in some way.  

Thinking that this person would help her, E.S. and her two relatives 

got out of the taxi.  But the "good samaritan" hopped in the taxi and

took off with the driver (!).  E.S. called the police, who were 

(somehow) able to review the video images taken inside the taxi and

they determined the identities of the suspects.  Last Saturday, police

apprehended taxi driver K.P. (30) and his cohort C.D. (44) and took

them both into custody. 

Driver K.P. and cohort C.D. seen here planning the caper.

"Beat & Release": Depth of Brutality That Just Scratches the Surface

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(Hürriyet Newspaper 13 April 2021)

               The thinking man's maniac and his muse.

In Antalya, Gülsüm Demiray (22) filed a complaint against her abusive 

boyfriend Aziz Seyis and got a restraining order against him.  

Nevertheless, Seyis came to Gülsüm hanım's home with a knife in his

hand and leaned on her front door in a threatening manner.  He left but

not before scratching her door with his knife. (!)

Gülsüm hanım explained to police that Seyis would beat her on the 

slightest pretext, adding that "the violence began in the fourth month 

of our relationship. I've endured violence from him with a belt, a

knife, a gun and all sorts of other things.  He has beaten me at my home, 

his home, outside in front of other people, in the car. When I told him I

wanted to break up he beat me."

"He came to my door with a knife and the next day he came to my

workplace and he's threatened me and my family with death.  So I

filed a complaint but he violated the restraining order, called me and

messaged me.  Then he came in his car to my street. I included his

calls and messages in my complaint but he was not charged. I don't

want to die!"

"You have 30 seconds to open this door. What happens after

that is on you!"

As for Seyis, he stated that the pictures that Gülsüm hanım posted on

social media of herself with black and blue marks around her eyes

and on her arms were old. (!):  "when we first met in 2019, she showed

me the same photographs and told me 'look what my old boyfriend did

to me!'  Now she's trying to say that I was the one who beat her in those

photos.  As for the door-scratching incident, that's true.  When we had

a fight she scratched my car so I said to her 'I'll come and we'll talk. If

you don't open the door I'll scratch it!'"

"But I also said that I wouldn't harm her.  The incident only involved the

scratch on the door.  She fooled all her social media followers with the

pictures, which are from before my time.  She's closed that account and

opened a new one to increase her followers, in my opinion."

Everything old is new again.

Buddhism and Taoism as Homewreckers

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 12 April 2021)

                             

                                    Three's a crowd.

According to a divorce suit filed in Istanbul, P.E. and C.E., the parents

of two children, are breaking up because of husband C.E.'s obsession 

with Buddhism and Taoism. (!)   Wife P.E. alleges that her husband has

paid  a life coach excessive amounts of money to begin lessons in the

two religions. 

P.E. stated in the divorce filing that C.E., who is the Turkey sales chief

for a famous brand, has directed all his energies and time to the religions,

participating in many 'inziva' (seclusion) events and travelling to India

and China, while declaring to P.E. that "even if you leave me I'm going!"

The latest incident, P.E. stated, has been centered on C.E., who has a 

Chinese life coach and takes lessons online from the coach's Turkey-based

representatives, engaging in mass-like rituals in front of the couple's 

children.  According to P.E., C.E. does "calligraphy health" in the air 

with his hand, while screaming meaningless chants and this has had a 

negative effect on their children's development. (!)

P.E. was crushed by her husband's confession that he had gone on the 

'inziva' trips with another woman.  In her petition to the court it is 

stated that "as time has passed, P.E. has been subjected to her husband's

physical abuse and death threats.  Their young child has begun to stutter

after seeing P.E. beaten by her husband.  P.E. wants 15,000 TL (about

$1,750) for herself and the same amount for the children as alimony

each month.  In addition, P.E. is asking for 2.5 million TL in 

compensation, 1 million of which is for mental stress."

In response, C.E. asserted that  P.E.'s allegation are baseless and he filed

a countersuit, declaring that he has never abused his wife or children. 

C.E.'s lawyer explained that "the complainant has characterized C.E.'s

efforts toward personal development as problematic.  P.E. has accused 

him of ignoring her and their children. Yet, C.E. is doing what he's doing 

in order to make his family happier. (!)  He has not neglected his family. 

He invited his wife to come on the trips with him but she refused. P.E. 

is the source of the discord."

C.E. and friend on most recent 'inziva' excursion.