"Beat & Release": Game of "Hide & Seek" With Police Ends Badly for Fugitive, in Adana

türkçe links to orginal Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 13 January 2025)

       "Catch me if you can!"

In Adana's Çukurova district, police set out to arrest fugitive

Oğulcan Şahin (21), who has a police record of 123 crimes (!).

Şahin escaped from prison four months ago.  Police located

Şahin's car on Adnan Menderes Boulevard but when they

stopped the car Şahin was not inside. 

Reacting to this failed capture by the police, Şahin haughtily

posted this taunt on social media: "Look hard at the license 

plates.  Maybe you'll find me."  

The day after this post, police surveilled Şahin's girlfriend and 

determined that he was hiding out at a house in Seyhan 

district, preparing to flee Turkey.  When police broke down

the door and seized Şahin he said to them "uh, I wasn't 

expecting you."  (!)

A search of the house yielded a Kalashnikov artillery rifle,

an unlicensed revolver with 35 bullets, a bullet-proof vest,

narcotics and a sensitive weighing scale.  In his statement,

Şahin "explained" the guns, saying "I have enemies. I kept

the guns for self-defense."  He was jailed and the guns are

being examined to determine whether they were used in

other crimes. 

They could.