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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 14 July 2023)
Failed Hostage-Taking 101.
When Muhammed Nuh Kasadar (19) went missing last Monday his
father Mustafa Kasadar, a writer for Milli Newspaper, filed a
missing person report. A message came to the Kasadar family via
Telegram saying "I'm holding Muhammed. If you want to save him
you must pay $40,000." As if they were Muhammed's parents,
hostage rescue police experts negotiated the ransom down to 70,000 TL
(about $2,700).
Muhammed's older brother left the money at a park in Sultangazi,
Istanbul, as directed by the hostage-taker. Police then took the person
who came to take the money into custody. (!)
The hostage-taker, Hakan Öztürk (28), worked at the Kasadar family's
publishing house three years ago. Öztürk, who is a compulsive gambler
and has a police record for two incidents of "neglectful harming",
confessed to killing Muhammed.
In his blood-curdling statement to police, Öztürk explained that "last
Sunday Muhammed and I had a meal together, after which we went to
my home in Bayrampaşa. I mentioned to him the debt his father owed
me from the time I worked for him. We got into an argument about
that and I strangled him with a rope. I then took his body into the
bathroom and dismembered it with a knife. So the body parts wouldn't
smell I put them in plastic bags in a freezer. I knew I had to run away
but I didn't have any money so that's why I demanded money from his
family."
Milli Newspaper Managing Editor Mustaf Kurdaş, noted that Mustafa
Kasadar had given Öztürk a job, mentored him and helped him when
he got married, adding that "this fellow (Öztürk) got a lot of help but
then he became a drug addict and was deeply in debt. Muhammed had
just taken the university entrance exam and was waiting for the results."
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