"Beat & Release": Ex-Son-in-Law's Turn in the Barrel, in Pendik

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 15 May 2022)

Final resting place of "honor" - bottom of an elevator shaft.

When Uğur Kahraman (30) and his wife Ezgi got divorced two years 

ago the court awarded custody of their two daughters to Uğur bey. 

Meanwhile, Ezgi hanım moved to Adıyaman, remarried but committed

suicide last year.  

On 26 April, Uğur bey's father was unable to reach his son so he called

the police, worried about Uğur bey's safety.  Police looked at video and

telephone records and noted that Uğur bey had met with his former

father-in-law Hüseyin Sezer on that day, after which the two went to 

Sezer's home.  

Under questioning, Sezer denied knowing anything about his former

son-in-law's disappearance but on the last day of his interrogation, he

admitted that "I saw him from time to time because he had custody of

my grandchildren.  When he threatened not to let me see them we

argued and then I shot him.  I put his body in a barrel and kept the 

barrel in my garden for a while.  After that, I put the barrel in the

elevator shaft of my family's home in Pendik." 

Police subsequently found Uğur bey's body in the barrel.  As Sezer 

was being taken to jail he told reporters "He's the guy who dragged

my daughter into the drugs and prostitution that killed her.  I killed

him for the honor of my daughter and my grandchildren."