"Beat & Release": Vehicular Homicide Fueled by "Rakı", in Adana

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 21 February 2025) 

Social media posting addiction as bad as his "rakı" fetish.

In Adana's Seyran district on 18 February at about nine-thirty

at night, a light commercial vehicle with plate number 01 AVE

828, driven by Şükrü D. (22), tried to pass a car on the right 

side and hit a motorcycle ridden by Aydın Uslu (52) proceeding

in the right lane.  Şükrü D. then plowed into a light pole. 

Uslu died and Şükrü D. fled the scene, but he was nabbed by 

police in a flat where he was hiding out.  Police found a photo

on Şükrü D.'s social media page showing him drinking "rakı"

at a restaurant table prior to the crash. (!)  Şükrü D. was jailed.