"Beat & Release": Devilish Facebook Ruse Scalps Barber in Kadıköy

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 14 October 2021)

               Facebook friends can turn out to be foes.

Barber Kamuran Tün (42), who had an affair with a married woman in 

Silopi district of Şırnak province twenty years ago, fled out of fear to 

Istanbul and became a barber with his own shop in Kadıköy.  Meanwhile,

back in Şırnak, Murat Tumuçin (21) learned from his father Hacı Tumuçin

that Tün was the reason that his parents' marriage broke up. 

So Murat Tumuçin set out to find and kill Tün, coming with his father to 

Istanbul for that purpose.  However, Tün's Istanbul address was hard to 

find so the Tumuçins came up with a devilish plan.  Murat "friended"

Tün on Facebook under the guise of being a woman named "Züleyha",

who told Tün that "she" wanted to become a hairdresser.  

Tün got interested and gave "Züleyha" his phone number.  But Murat

needed to find a real woman to call Tün so he got in touch with a friend

of a relative in Tekirdağ named Duygu Asker Hilal, telling Duygu hanım

that "Kamuran Tün owes me money.  If you find where he is I'll give you

some of the money."  

Sloppy killers from Silopi, with Tekirdağ's Duygu hanım,

trailing. 

Duygu hanım then called Tün, telling him she wanted to come and see him.

So Tün gave her his address (!) and on 12 October Hacı Tumuçin and 

Selçuk Başboğa went to Tekirdağ, picked up Duygu hanım and brought

her to Kadıköy to meet with Tün.  After coffee at a restaurant, when Tün

came out onto the street he was stabbed and killed by Murat Tumuçin and 

his relatives.     

The attackers fled but were rounded up by police.  Murat and Hacı Tumuçin

were jailed and Selçuk Başboğa and Duygu hanım were released on 

judicial supervision.