"Beat & Release": Police on Stakeout Mistakenly Attacked by Enraged Father and Son, in Üsküdar

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 24 October 2024)

                An unfortunate "volcanic" eruption. 

Yesterday in Üsküdar, Istanbul, lawyer Yaşar Tarık Okatan and 

his father Kadir Okatan, a retired army officer, noticed a car 

waiting in front of a shop.  Yaşar Tarık bey thought that one 

of the people in the car resembled someone who harassed his

sister, so he and his father approached the waiting car in their

own vehicle. 

Yaşar Tarık bey, with a hammer in his hand, cried out "You're

Volkan, the one who harassed my sister!" and he began to 

hit "Volkan" with the hammer.  "Volkan" protested that he 

wasn't the "Volkan" Yaşar Tarık was looking for, but to no 

avail, as father Kadir bey fired on the men in the car with a

revolver. (!)

It turned out that the two people in the car were plainclothes

policemen on a stakeout (!).  Kadir bey's firing prompted one

of them to shoot both Okatan's - Yaşar Tarık bey in the head

and Kadir bey in his groin.  Father and son, along with one

of the policemen, were taken to a hospital.