"Beat & Release": Ladies From the 'Stans' - Rough Times in Turkey

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 11 July 2022)

                      "Oh! olsun" (It serves him right). 

In Pamukkale, Denizli province, Özgür Günden (44) went to a hotel 

together with his girlfriend Sojida Kalandarova (27), a native of 

Uzbekistan, and her friend Sarvinoz Khairullaeva (23), who is from

Kyrgyzstan.  A jealousy argument erupted between Günden and 
Kalandarova.  When she refused to show Günden her telephone he

became enraged.  During the ensuing fight between them, Kalandarova

scratched Günden's face, prompting him to go to the reception desk,

where he had left a bag for safekeeping. 

Returning to the hotel room, Günden took out a thermos from the bag

and poured acid on both women.  As they screamed for help, Günden,

who had accidentally gotten some of the acid on his own face (!), fled

the hotel.  At the hospital, Khairullaeva was treated and released but

Kalandarova, with third-degree burns over most of her body was 

transferred to a hospital in Izmir, where she died in the intensive care

unit. 

As for Günden, he was tracked down by police at a relative's house in

Nazilli, in Aydın province, and jailed.  Günden had previously been

convicted of another murder.  He told police that "when I said she'd

cheated on me the argument grew more intense and she scratched my

face.  I lost control and got the lime drain cleaner and poured it on her.

I didn't know that it could cause burns (!).   I don't remember why I 

got it in the first place."

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türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 11 July 2022)

sacrificial mayhem click here for a TNT report 

more holiday bloodletting. 

                      There's no place like home Dorothyeva. 

On the first day of Kurban Bayramı (Feast of Sacrifice), E.Ö. went to

distribute meat from a sacrificial animal and was driving along the 

Sazlıdere Dam road in the Kayaşehir area of Istanbul's Başakşehir 

district when he saw a headless body alongside the road. (!) 

Police arrived at the scene and found the head of a woman about 10

meters away.  They determined that there were more than 20 stab

wounds in the woman's body.  The head and body were brought to

the police lab, where it was determined that they belonged to Nobar

Gafarova (51) of Turkmenistan.  Police are looking at street security

camera footage in an effort to determine the killer or killers.