"Beat & Release": Like Father Like Son, When it Comes to Killing Women, in Kozan

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 27 January 2022) 

                                                  Ouch.

Last May in Adana's Kozan district, the bodies of Tuğçe Duman (27) 

and Melek Elşemo (24) were found 100 meters apart, both shot with a

"pompalı tüfenk" (pump-action rifle).  Finally, suspect Furkan A. (22)

has been apprehended by police.  

On the night of 23 May 2021, the Gendarmerie was informed when 

someone saw bullet holes on the window of  a parked car (plate nr.

01 AHG 364) on Müftü Mustafa Street in Kozan's Eskikabasakal

neighborhood near the canal.  When the Gendarmerie troops arrived

they found Tuğçe hanım's body in the car, with a rifle bullet in her. 

As the Gendarmerie team surveyed the area they found another 

woman's body 100 meters away, that of Melek hanım, a Syrian who was

living with Tuğçe hanım's uncle.  The prime suspect was Furkan A. but

he could not be found so his uncle İ.A., cousins Murat A.,  O.İ. and

B.Ç., along with another person, were all taken into custody on 

suspicion of having involvement in the crimes.  The court released 

all the suspects but Murat A. was taken into custody again in July 

and jailed.

Last night the Gendarmerie got a tip that Furkan A. had come to his

home in Eskikabasakal at about 4 o'clock in the morning.  Furkan A.

was captured in a raid on the house.    

It turned out that Tuğçe hanım, in the process of divorcing her husband, 

had come to live with her mother in Kozan and met Furkan A., who 

kidnapped her on 13 March and again on 23 April.  Furkan A. had 

ignored a restraining order against him and taken Tuğçe hanım to a hilly

area nearby.  On 4 May, Furkan A. and Tuğçe hanım came down from the

hills on foot.  Tuğçe hanım was able to inform police and have Furkan A.

taken into custody. 

Furkan A., though, claimed that Tuğçe hanım had encouraged him to take 

her away and her complaint now amounted to slander.  So he was

released by the police.  But Duman's mother Hatice Kır claimed that

Furkan A. had repeatedly beaten her daughter and had declared that "If

you leave me I'll kill you and your loved ones. I'll chop up your body

and throw it in a cave."

It has also been learned that Furkan A.'s father Mustafa A. killed his

girlfriend Zübeyde Ü. (42), whom he claimed had deserted him, in 

Kozan on 26 May 2016, wounding Zübeyde hanım's mother Nahide U.,

as well.  Mustafa A. was jailed for life for the murder.