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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 13 May 2022)
Water, water everywhere...but not a drop for free.
The horrific incident occurred in the garden of a 2-story house on Yaz
Street in Konya's Meram district. Welder Hüseyin Mahir (31) was using
a water meter in tandem with his mother's renter Mevlüt Kapan (35).
The bill for the water usage came to 66 TL (a bit more than $4) so Mahir
and Kapan split the payment but Mahir claimed that Kapan came up
13 TL (about 85 U.S. cents) short for his end of the payment.
An argument ensued, during which Mahir shot Kapan in the groin with
a rifle, killing him. Mahir, who has a record of 4 previous crimes, was
charged with murder and jailed. Kapan's wife Havva lamented that
their three children, İsmail Kerim (9), Ahmet Semih (6) and Ayşe Nisa
(1) were now fatherless. After seeing her husband killed in front of her
eyes, Havva hanım said that "we were paying the water bill equally.
They got into a fight and I heard my husband moan. He was lying face
down and asked for my blessing."
Havva hanım noted that "the house where we were living was going
to be torn down so we had to move. Since we don't have a car, we had
to move somewhere close to my husband's workplace. A friend's wife
suggested this house, saying that she knew the owner, who was nice to
us at first. My husband, though, told her upfront that 'if I'm paying
rent, you can't interfere with my comings and goings.' He painted the
place with his friends all night long."
Watering (black) hole.
As time went by, homeowner Fatma Mahir began to complain about
the Kapan's placement of items in the house, their children playing
in the garden and the noise resulting from wood stacked on the
balcony. Havva hanım related all this to Fatma hanım's son Hüseyin
Mahir and claimed that he sided with them, rather than his mother.
However (!) Havva hanım added that "the homeowner was watering
the garden in the back of our house, where she had planted some
things. Then the 66 TL water bill came. We had been paying it
equally but then Mevlüt said to me 'they're watering the garden so
I'm only going to pay a third of the bill from now on. I'll give them
15 TL this time.' Mevlüt later added another 5 TL for his share of
the water bill but then he argued with the homeowner's son."
In his statement to the police, Hüseyin Mahir explained that "the day
before we'd had an argument because he was short on his end of the
water bill. So that day I went to his house with my rifle. We argued
again and I shot him." Mahir was charged with "murder with intent to
kill and wound" and jailed.
Water torturer.
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