"Beat & Release": Visitors to Istanbul Might Want to Avoid the "Ruby Nightclub"

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 26 September 2022)

     This is not the club's floor show.  Just the warm-up act.

In Ortaköy, Istanbul, bouncers at the Ruby nightclub denied entry to 

three people, setting off a night of mayhem.  Mesut B., Recep Ç. and 
İnci Cennet E. went to the Ruby nightclub on the night of 8 September

but were denied entry by the club's bouncers.  An argument ensued and

one of the three headbutted a bouncer. A group of 10 bouncers then beat

the living daylights out of the three.  

The same night at about 3 in the morning, 4 people on two motorcycles

came to the Ruby nightclub and fired on the bouncers.  In the subsequent 

battle, Ferdi K., Şehmuz Y. and Selman Ç., who had come on the 

motorcycles, were slightly wounded, as was bouncer Zeki P.  

Police took 9 people from the two groups into custody and it was 

determined that those who came on the motorcycles were the brothers

and friends of Recep Ç., who had been denied entry and beaten earlier.

The four motorcycle-born attackers were jailed, as was bouncer Zeki P.

Another bouncer, Mesut G. was placed under house arrest.  

The night before last, Mesut E. and İnci Cennet E. gave statements at

the Beşiktaş police station and filed complaints about having been beaten

when they tried to enter the nightclub.  This complaint prompted police

to take bouncer Ferhat A. into custody. 

                     It's very nice, if you can get in. 

"Beat & Release": His Name is "Mud", Appropriately, in Giresun

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 24 September 2022)

               He insisted on signing in mud, instead of ink.

Yesterday at around noon in the Merkez neighborhood of Espiye

district in Giresun province, Nuri Çamur (whose surname means "mud")

went to the home of his brother-in-law to talk with his wife Dilek Çamur,

who had filed for divorce from him.  Predictably, an argument arose and

Dilek hanım's sister Ayşe Kılıç and the brother-in-law's wife Damla

Çubukçu sought to intervene. 

However (!), Çamur pulled out a revolver and shot the three women.

He then turned the gun on himself and pulled the trigger.  Police arrived

at the scene and the women were taken to a hospital where they all died.

Çamur remains under treatment in the hospital. 

Ayşe Taş, who has a shop on the street where the incident occurred, 

heard the shots and then saw one of the women tumble down the 

entrance staircase with a bloodied two-and-a-half-year-old boy in her 

arms.  Ayşe hanım said that Dilek hanım had come to her older brother's

house to escape from Çamur. 

"Beat & Release": Killer Blames Evil Spirit Chieftan for His Murders, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 23 September 2022)

                   Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

In Istanbul's Başakşehir and Küçükçekmece districts, Güven Güler 

killed three people and wounded four others, two of them policemen.  

After his capture, Güler explained in his statement that "I was shot 

about 3 or 4 months ago and since that day I began to see the chief of

an evil spirit tribe named Hannas.  The one who committed these 

crimes was Hannas, not me.  I reject the accusations against me."

Those who aided Güler in his crimes were Onur Saygun, Nevzat

Aslan, Uğur U., Ferdi Taşdemir and Atilla Ü. (17), all of whom

were arraigned in the Küçükçekmece courthouse.  Saygun was

released after giving a statement, while the others were jailed. 

                               Hannas, the real killer.

TNT Road Rage Edition: Driver Torches Car When Stopped by Police, Who Kill Him

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 21 September 2022)

This is what passes for a routine traffic stop around here :(

Yesterday at about 5 o'clock in the evening in Ümraniye, Istanbul, police

stopped a suspicious vehicle and wanted to ban it from the streets because 

the car was under a sequestration order.  

However, driver Yavuz Genç took great exception to this and set the car

on fire. (!)  Genç and his friend A.G. also attacked the policemen and 

firemen who tried to put the fire out.  A.G. knocked one policeman

to the ground and kicked him, as Genç continued to attack with a knife. 

The police fired warning shots in the air but when Genç persisted he 

was shot and died in a hospital.  Three people were injured by ricocheting

bullets.  A.G. was taken into custody. 

 

"Romeo" the Dog Dies; Cat Fight Erupts Between "Juliets"

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 21 September 2022) 

                          The dog's the lucky one.

Lawyer Kübra Oktay, who is known for her animal advocacy, adopted

a puppy left at an animal shelter in Ordu and named the dog "Romeo". 

However, when Kübra hanım took Romeo to the vet the dog was found

to have Parvovisus.  With treatment, Romeo recovered but then died 

from another disease. 

Kübra hanım informed her supporters via social media of Romeo's 

passing but Sinem Umaş responded that Kübra hanım was to blame 

for Romeo's death, writing: "based on what we have learned, the dog

was injected with needles without understanding what the problem

was.  The poor animal moaned all night before dying.  But where is

Kübra? She's in Bodrum and putting on a show with her videos!"

Kübra hanım's lawyer filed this complaint against Sinem hanım:

"Sinem Umaş is clearly subjecting my client to psychological 

harm and causing irreparable damage to her reputation.  We suspect

that Sinem Umaş has mental problems and ask that she be sent to

the forensic medicine institute for a determination of her mental

state."

    Kübra hanım and Sinem hanım pictured outside court.

"Beat & Release": Her "Suicide" Attempt Fails, Suspect Boyfriend Goes Free (twice!) but Now in Jail.

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 18 September 2022)

      His slogan was "Hey, I can't get arrested!". Until now.

In the Kavaklıdere neighborhood of Ankara's Çankaya district, nightclub

singer Ebru Sultan Bozdağ (32) was brought to a hospital on the morning

of 5 September by her boyfriend Hasan Karabudak (26) and his father. 

Karabudak claimed to the hospital police that Ebru Sultan hanım 

attempted suicide because he wanted to break up with her and that the

gun she was holding went off when he tried to take it from her. (!)

Karabudak was released by the police after giving his statement but

following treatment, Ebru Sultan hanım stated that Karabudak had 

become jealous of nightclub patrons who admired her and the couple 

argued: "he threatened to kill me and my family and started to beat me.

Then he took out a gun from his waist, grabbed me by my neck, and 

shot me from behind my back.  He took me to the bathroom but the 

bleeding wouldn't stop so he took me to his father's house.  Still, the 

bleeding wouldn't stop so they brought me to the hospital."

Subsequently, Karabudak was taken into custody again and repeated

his first statement about "suicide".  The court noted that Karabudak 

was not a flight risk and the need remained to gather more evidence and

determined who fired the gun.  So he was released again. (!) 

However, the public prosecutor objected to the release and a higher 

court decided that Karabudak should be arrested for attempted murder

and he was put in prison to await trial. 

"Beat & Release": Yet Another Wife Commits "Suicide", While Suspect Hubby Goes Free

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 15 September 2022)

Suicide by self-inflicted stabbings. And I've got a bridge to

sell you, he says.

In Kahramanmaraş on 17 November 2021, Sevgi Gevşek (27) was 

brought to a hospital with stab wounds in her stomach.  En route to

the hospital, Sevgi hanım, when asked how she was wounded, said

"I stabbed myself." (!)

Sevgi hanım died on 23 November and in connection with the related

investigation, her husband Durdu Gevşek (28) was taken into custody.

Gevşek claimed that Sevgi hanım had grabbed a knife from the kitchen

and stabbed herself.  Nevertheless, he was charged with killing his wife

and put on trial for a life sentence.  

The prosecutor's indictment stated that "the deceased could 

not possibly have stabbed herself three times in the stomach in a 

suicide attempt."  Gevşek refuted the charges against him in court and

the committee of judges ruled that there was not enough concrete 

evidence to convict Gevşek so he, along with his father İ.G. and friend

B.A., were acquitted.  (!)

One member of the judges committee filed a dissent, stating that Gevşek 

should be jailed for murder and İ.G: and B.A. jailed for destroying 

evidence. 

Serbian Drug Mafia Chieftan Rubbed Out in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 10 September 2022)

     Was hoping to catch Scorsese's eye for his next film.

Jovan Vukotiç, the leader of the Serbian drug mafia gang Skaljari,

was driving with his wife and children in the Mecidiyeköy section of 

Şişli, Istanbul, the day before yesterday when two people on a motorcycle 

came alongside his car and shot Vukotiç five times.  The assailants fled 

and Vukotiç died from his wounds. 

Vukotiç, sought by Interpol with a red bulletin for drug dealing, was 

arrested in Antalya in 2018 and deported. He spent 15 months in prison

in Serbia and upon his release he fled to Istanbul with a fake ID. 

Vukotiç's Skaljari gang was at odds with another Serbian gang, the 

Kavaka group.  The two gangs were engaged in an ongoing battle over 

300 kilograms of  cocaine that disappeared in the Spanish port of 

Valencia in 2014. 

There's no such thing as bad publicity but you gotta stay

alive to be a movie star. 

"Beat & Release": She Gets 'Honor Beating' and They Get Released, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 5 September 2022)

As brother recorded defender-of-honor in action, so did a 

security camera.  Nevertheless, they both walked away free.

In Ümraniye, Istanbul, Funda Altinyay (36), the mother of two children,

was followed for 10 months by her estranged husband Ferit Altınyay 

and his brother Yusuf Altınyay.  When Funda hanım chatted with Ö.Ş.

as she waited to pick up her children from a course, the brothers, 

enraged that Funda hanım was talking with a man, attacked her with a

metal bar and then attacked Ö.Ş.

Funda hanım stayed in a hospital for 6 days and had to have a metal

plate set in her broken arm.  Based on her complaint, the brothers were

taken into custody but released after giving statements. (!) 

Funda hanım lamented that "I suffered continual violence for four years.

He beat me with a bat and choked my neck with a belt.  I took refuge in

a women's shelter for a while for the safety of myself and the children. 

He made an immoral proposal to me: 'I'm going to bring home my

friend who's a security guard and introduce him to you.'  I told his uncle

about this but the uncle came and scolded me, saying 'this matter is 

closed! If you talk about it people will die.'"

As for the attack on her with the metal bar, Funda hanım said that "I 

had quite a headache when I brought my child to school so I sat in 

the garden of the village chief's office next to the school.  A fellow 

stopped and asked me if I was alright.  My estranged husband and his

brother were following me all the time, saying 'If you leave the house

we'll cripple you, kill you.'  On the day of this incident, they said to me

"you are still representing our honor. How could you speak to another

man?!  You've dishonored us!'  Then he hit me with the metal bar and

his brother hit me in the face."

"Beat & Release": The Devil as Both Cause and Effect in Woman's Murder, in Aydın

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(Cumhuriyet Newspaper, 3 September 2022) 

                         Devil-may-care kinda guy. 

In Aydın's Koçarlı district, M.A. (33) cut the throat of his wife of two 

months, Nejla Aydoğdu (32), explaining that "I went to Ankara on 29 

August.  My aim was to tell the officials at the 'külliye' (possibly 

meaning the presidential palace) that the vaccine is a part of a devilish 

trick.  By getting the vaccine, my wife became a part of this devilish 

trick.  I told her she had to choose between right and the devil.  In 

response, she said 'God brought us together. I'm always with you.'"  

"So I said 'let's leave everything and live in my grandfather's country 

house.'  She agreed.  On the day of the incident, we went there in a 

minibus.  We got off the bus and chatted as we walked.  My wife took 

an apple and ate it lustfully.  I said to her 'eat the apple as God meant it 

to be eaten!'.  Then we gathered purslane from the garden and as we 

were eating it she said to me 'did you go to the 'külliye' with provocation 

in mind?'  Whatever happened took place at that moment.  I attacked her 

with a knife. My aim was not to kill her but to prove my point." (!)

The incident occurred in Satılar village's Demiroluk pasture on 

Wednesday, 31 August, in the evening.  M.A. was arrested by the 

Gendarmerie and jailed in Aydin city. 

  

"Beat & Release": Alphabetical Mayhem at Manavgat State Hospital, in Antalya

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 1 September 2022)

                        Get in line in alphabetical order.

Three people injured in a traffic accident in Antalya's Manavgat district

were stabbed at a hospital by their enemy N.G., who also wounded a 

Gendarmerie soldier.  N.G. and her husband U.G. were caught by police.

Two families in Manavgat, previously related by marriage, had a falling-

out and became enemies.  Last Saturday M.D. opened fire on T.G. of 

the opposing family, who was in his car, with a 'pompalı tüfenk' (pump-

action rifle).  T.G. was taken to Manavgat State Hospital for treatment 

for the wounds and M.D. was taken into custody by the Gendarmerie.

The day before yesterday at around noon Ç.K. (29), M.D. (31) and Ş.D.

(71) were involved in a traffic accident at the Kumköy Tourism Center

and were taken to Manavgat State Hospital for treatment.  N.G., the 

older sister of T.G., came to this hospital to see her brother and learned

that enemies Ç.K., M.D. and Ş.D. were there, too.  (!)

N.G. went to the emergency room where Ç.K. was waiting in the 

tomography section and stabbed him.  Then, N.G. tracked down M.D.

and Ş.D. in other sections of the hospital and knifed them, too, 

stabbing a Gendarmerie soldier who was trying to intervene, as well.  

Ç.K.'s condition was said to be serious. 

About an hour later police nabbed N.G. and her husband U.G. after 

they had fled the scene.