türkçe links to original Turkish article & "The Scream"
(Hürriyet Newspaper, 26 October 2021)
Drama queen's Oscar-caliber performance.
In Istanbul on 1 November 2018, Özlem Atan Tarlacı, an academician at
Haliç Univerisity, was stopped by police for chatting on her phone and
not wearing her seatbelt while driving along the Golden Horn shore in
the Balat neighborhood of Fatih district. Police then noticed that Özlem
hanım's car lacked an updated inspection sticker.
But when police wrote a ticket for these infractions, Özlem hanım had a
screaming fit that lasted for some minutes (see video at "türkçe" above).
Policeman A.K. took a video of Özlem hanım's "performance". She was
fined a total of 578 TL and her car was banned from the streets.
The resemblance is uncanny.
About a month after the incident occurred, "The Scream" audio-video was
provided to the press and posted on social media. This prompted Özlem
hanım to file a criminal complaint, alleging damage to her prestige. The
subsequent investigation resulted in charges being brought against
policeman A.K., who took the video, policeman O.K., who shared it with
a 52-member traffic police WhatsApp group, and M.G.H., who posted
the video on Instagram, for "exposing video and audio related to one's
personal life."
Policemen A.K. and O.K. explained that their collar cameras weren't
charged so they had to use their personal cellphones to take the video
for evidence purposes and shared it with the traffic police WhatsApp
group with this same evidentiary aim in mind. They were both acquitted
by the court.
As for M.G.H., he claimed that he got the video from another website
but it was determined that the video had not been posted anywhere else
on the internet before M.G.H. posted it. The court found him guilty of
"exposing video and audio related to one's personal life" and sentenced
him to 2 years and 1 month in jail. (!)
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