"Beat & Release": Dad's Suicide-That-Wasn't, Discoverd by Chance, Daughter and Boyfriend Indicted for Murder, in Muğla

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 19 October 2023)

                Murder for the sake of an olive orchard.

In connection with a fraud case being handled by the Yatağan public

prosecutor in Muğla province, the Gendarmerie conducted a search in

the home of Mehmet Karadağ (30).  On one of the documents found the

name of Ayşegül Bulut (20) appeared, prompting further investigation

and resulting in Ayşegül hanım being taken into custody on 16 March.

Ayşegül hanım's father Samet Bulut (49) "committed suicide" on 25 

February 2022 and on that same day Ayşegül hanım attempted suicide

by drinking poison.  The Gendarmerie cross-examined Ayşegül hanım

and her boyfriend Mehmet Karadağ and they both confessed that they had

killed Samet Bulut and then made his death look like a suicide.  In the

course of the investigation, Ayşegül hanım's mother Penbe Bulut (49)

was taken into custody, as well.  Aylegül hanım was jailed and her 

mother was released on judicial supervision.  Karadağ is already in jail

for fraud but was charged with Samet Bulut's murder, too. 

In the prosecutor's indictment, it is stated that Ayşegül hanım gave her

father's olive orchards to Karadağ.  So, when Samet Bulut learned this

he filed a fraud complaint with the police, prompting Ayşegül hanım

and Penbe hanım to plan to kill Samet bey.  At the time when Ayşegül

hanım went to work,  Karadağ waited across the street in a vacant 

house, wearing latex gloves and a black outfit, while Penbe hanım

remained at home on the pretext of washing the dishes.  Ayşegül

hanım brought rope, an insulin needle and a plastic chair, all wrapped

in a cloth, to the murder site. 

Karadağ used a chemical substance to make Samet bey feint and then

injected insulin into Samet bey causing hypoglycemia.  Next, Karadağ

put the rope around Samet bey's neck and together with Ayşegül hanım

and Penbe hanım, they ran the rope through an iron bar to raise Samet

bey's feet off the floor and tied a knot in the rope.  Karadağ then put 

the knife he used to cut the rope in Samet Bey's hand to make the whole

thing look like suicide. (!)