Batman Blood Feud & Blood Money

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 3 September 2019)


R.K. telling police to stay away until Suat Yüksekbağ was 
absolutely dead last week at the Batman bus station.

In Batman last week, Suat Yüksekbağ was stabbed to death  by
brothers R.K. and A.K.  at the city bus terminal.  Now the bitter
details about the 'blood feud' have begun to come out.  Suat's father
Nuri Yüksekbağ explained that his son was killed because Nuri hadn't
payed the expected 'blood money':  "Last year they wanted 100,000 TL
from me because my elder son had been involved in an a murder in
Kozak district.  It's not clear that my son was even involved in the
incident.  There were 5,6 people at the scene of the incident."

According to court records, Faruk Yüksekbağ (23) and his friends
got into a fight with Ozan and Nurullah Ketir in Kozak.  During the
fight Faruk allegedly stabbed Ozan to death.  Faruk is currently in
prison awaiting trial.


                       Nuri holding Suat's army photo.

"The dead man's family wanted 50,000 from my elder son's
father-in-law and that was paid. But I didn't have the 100,000 they
demanded so I went to Kütahya to work in the fields to earn the
money.  But they wouldn't wait and killed Suat in lieu of the money.
They're not humans. Suat finished his military service 3 months
ago and he was coming to work with me in Kütahya to help raise
the money."

Nuri criticized the Batman police for not intervening after Suat
had been stabbed the first time, acceeding to the K brothers'
insistance that no one approach Suat until he was dead.

 
              Batman province (interesting geography...).

Dirty Old Man Nabbed by 12-Gal Posse

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Milliyet Newspaper, 2 September 2019)


                                    Some of 'The 12'.

In Seyhan, Adana, an 80-year-old man has been sexually harassing
the local women with both his words and his hands.  As the complaints
against the man mounted, 12 brave women banded together to make a
plan to catch him.  On the day of the latest incident, 'The 12' waited at
the head of the street to ambush the dirty old man.

When the deviant came to the neighborhood this time, again he
harassed a woman in front of her house with his hands. When the
woman screamed, though, 'The 12' cornered him and trapped him in
a garden, slamming and locking the metal gate.  The women called
the police and said "We've caught the harasser. Come and get him."

As the police took the suspect away, the women jeered him and then
followed him to the police station to file complaints against him,
noting that "this man has come to our neighborhood a number of
times to harass our women. Sometimes he's even come half-naked
and made filthy proposals.  It got to the point where we couldn't
let our children out into the street."


Suspect was caught in possession of this. 'Nuff said.

The Groom Wore Handcuffs

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 1 September 2019)

Handcuffed bride click here for TNT's recent companion
piece.


                                Faint-of-heart bride.

In the Doğuyaka quarter of Muratpaşa district of Antalya province,
Okan Kuşbaş (18) and Gülfer Yeleç (18) organized a 'kına gecesi'
(bride's girlfriends paint her hands with henna) on 29 August.  After
the event, groom Kuşbaş went to his home and began firing a gun
from the balcony, evidently in celebration. 

Two nightwatchmen on Âşık Veysel Avenue heard the shots and
rushed to the street.  But Kuşbaş then began firing at the watchmen.
He was taken into custody and 12 empty cartridges were found at
the scene.  Kuşbaş spent the night at the police station and was
transported to court on 30 August, which was to be his wedding
day. (!)


The excitement will wear off very soon Okan bey.

Bride Yeleç emerged from the hairdresser and went to the
courthouse to get Kuşbaş so they could go to the wedding hall.
However (!), the judge ruled that because Kuşbaş fired his gun
at public officials he had to go to jail.  This development
prompted Yeleç to faint.  Her relatives took her to the hospital
by automobile. The wedding has been rescheduled until Kuşbaş
gets out of the slammer.