"Beat & Release": Russian Woman KO's Turk and Puts His Body in Car Trunk

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 5 May 2021)

                She's a knockout, in more ways than one.

Residents of a neighborhood in Bursa complained to police about a foul 

smell coming from the trunk of a car.  When police opened the trunk

they found the body of Sinan Sönmez (32) who had been missing for 

34 days.  

Police checked video from 180 security cameras and determined that

Russian citizen Nariman S. (29) had brought the car to the spot where it 

was parked.  Sönmez's telephone records were checked, too, and Nariman

S. was taken into custody.  

In her statement to police, Nariman S. said that "Sinan Sönmez and I were 

friends.  About a month ago we went to a wooded area of Ahkisar village 

in İnegöl district to drink alcohol under the trees there.  He suddenly began

cursing and in the ensuing argument I punched him and knocked him out.

Then I strangled him to death and put his body in the trunk of the car,

which I abandoned in Kestel district.  While leaving the scene I took off

the license plates and threw his ID and telephone into a stream. I'm very

regretful." (!)

Taken into custody for helping the murder suspect were Latife A., Sabit D.,

Alişan D. and İsmail Ç.  who were all jailed, along with Nariman S.