8 Şubat 2023 Çarşamba

"Beat & Release": Earthquake Victims' Social Media Teasers Arrested

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 8 February 2023)
















                                 Kahramanmaraş

A victim of the earthquake that struck Kahramanmaraş on Monday sent
a message from his cell phone from underneath the rubble of a collapsed
building, pleading for help.  A sarcastic response posted on social media
teased "we're coming to save you" amid laughter. (!) 

That response on social media garnered widespread condemnation and 
it was determined that the culprits were Yunus Sarıdağ and Mesut B.,
prompting Burdur-Gölhisar prosecutor Merve Altun to have the two
taken into custody.  In her statement in this regard, Prosecutor Altun
wrote that "it may be that earthquake victims trapped under rubble 
will be unable to reach rescuers as their cell phone charge runs out.  
Here, the intention has been to increase the trauma of a person hoping
for help."  In its response, the court ordered the jailing of Sarıdağı and
Mesut B. 















                                 The joke's on him.

H.T.Ö., another individual who made fun of citizens trapped under 
earthquake rubble, was taken into custody in Istanbul but released 
after processing at a police station. 




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