"Beat & Release": Atatürk's Statue Axed by "Messiah", in Kayseri

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 20 June 2024)

"Messiah" and niece ended up in jail.  Atatürk, as always,

weathered the messianic storm. 

In Kayseri's Kocasinan district on the first day of "Kurban Bayramı" 

(16 June, Moslem feast of sacrifice), Yaşar Kılıçkaya (59) and his niece

Zeynep Abdullah (31) began to smash the statue of Atatürk in the town 

square with an axe, hitting it 13 times. (!)   Police intervened, took 

the two culprits into custody and jailed them.

In his statement to police Kılıçkaya "explained" that in a dream he saw

the Prophet Abraham, who told him that he (Kılıçkaya) was the Messiah

(!).  Zeynep hanım said that she believed that her uncle was the Messiah,

too.  Consequently, they asserted that "just like the Prophet Abraham 

destroyed idols, we wanted to do the same thing.  We don't regret it." (!)

Abraham had visions too.