"Rape & Release": Deviant "Paşa" Caught on Camera Raping Golden Retriever "Alice", in Florya, Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 8 September 2024)

                     Paşa's harem a bit too diverse.

On 4 June in the Florya section of Bakırköy, Istanbul, a citizen went to

the Şenlikköy police station to report having seen a naked man in a

dilapidated building dragging a golden retriever dog.  The citizen

told police he said to the naked man "Are you raping that dog?!", to

which the man replied "What's it to you!".  The citizen recorded this

exchange on his cellphone. 

The naked man put his pants back on and fled into a wooded area.

The video quickly spread on social media and police took suspect

Paşa Türk (!) into custody.  Police determined that Türk (61) works

as a watchman at a construction site in Küçükçekmece.  

In his statement to police Türk "explained" that he was using the dog 

to help him guard the construction site, but the dog somehow

disappeared.  Then, on the date of the incident, Türk went for a walk

in the wooded area in Florya and "coincidentally" encountered the dog.  

Türk asserted that the man in the video wasn't himself and that he had 

not raped the animal. 

However (!), a woman named Özlem Sönmez filed a police complaint

about Türk, saying that in 2020 the dog, named "Alice", was pregnant

and had been abandoned to the street by its owner.  Özlem hanım said

she began to look after "Alice" but that Türk had taken the dog and 

"exploited" it in recent years, although he hadn't been caught. 

Türk was jailed on 6 June and a veterinarian's report confirmed that 

"Alice" had been raped (!).  The public prosecutor has requested that

Türk be tried for "animal rape", which calls for a jail sentence of from

6 months to 3 years. 

"Beat & Release": Parent Company Strips Shop of Naming Rights After Bizarre Incident, in Pendik

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 6 September 2024)

 

       This time, there was such a thing as bad publicity. 

Last Tuesday in Istanbul's Pendik district, motorcycle courier İ.D.

sexually harassed a woman to whom he brought a food order from

the pastry shop Sarıyer Börekçisi.  The woman related the incident

to her husband U.B., who then went to the pastry shop and attacked

the personnel there. 

U.B. was beaten by the shop's personnel, among whom was manager

Ö.D.  Taking a bread knife from the shop, Ö.D. went after U.B. and

his wife.  The woman screamed "Do you know that your worker

sent me a phone message?!", which only served to enrage Ö.D. that

much more and he said in response "I'll cut you to shreds!".  With

that, Ö.D. stabbed U.B. 

Police arrived and took 3 people into custody, but after questioning

them they were released (!).  Images of the incident circulated

on social media, prompting furious citizens to stone the shop's windows

last night.  In response to this tumult, the Pendik municipality put a 

seal on the shop.

The uproar resulted in İ.D. and Ö.D. being taken into custody again (!)

and both of them were jailed.  In addition, the parent company of 

Sarıyer Börekçisi revoked the right of the shop to use its name. 

"Fleece & Release": Elderly Couple Duped by Fake Police in Phone Scam, in Küçükçekmece

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 5 August 2024)

Memorize the English phrase "I don't speak Turkish", so 

the bad guys will go elsewhere. 

A hoodwinker called Muammer Çatıkkaş Silsüpür (68) in Istanbul's 

Küçükçekmece district, identified himself as a policeman and told

Muammer hanım that a gang had made a fake ID card using her name

and would sell all her property.

Her husband Kadir Silsüpür then sold a plot of land he owned in 

Kastamonu worth 15 million TL (about $440,000) for just 5 million TL

and gave the money to the "police".  Subsequently, the couple realized

they had been duped and filed a criminal complaint with the real police.

Cybersecurity expert Osman Demircan noted that this fraud technique

is widely used against older citizens and recommended that when such

a call comes to physically go to the police station to confirm it (or not).

"Beat & Release": Environment's Enemies Don't Deserve the Name 'People', in Bolu and Kuşadası

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 4 September 2024)

      The morning after the creatures' night before...

The night before last in a park in the Aşağısoku neighborhood of Bolu,

four individuals drank alcohol and ate food, leaving their garbage 

remnants behind them.  In the morning, local residents were faced with

the filthy mess and summoned municipal sanitation teams to come and

clean it up. 

The four individuals who left the mess were identified and Bolu Mayor

Tanju Özcan reacted angrily: "Four creatures (!), let's not call them 

people, sat and drank in one of our parks until morning, leaving their

debris as they left.  We have learned their identities and have fined 

them each 40,000 TL (about $1,200).  We will also charge them with

crimes because paragraph 181 of the Turkish Penal Law stipulates that

'a jail term of up to two years will be given to anyone intentionally 

dirtying the environment.  So if you continue to behave in  this filthy 

manner you'll end up in jail.  I'm warning you!"

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 4 September 2024)

Restraining orders issued against human predators.

In Kuşadası district of Aydın province, teams from the Provincial 

Gendarmerie Command's Environment and Animal Protection

Command have determined that only 11 "ölmez çiçeği" (golden

tuft/helichrysum orientale) remain in the region.  

The fine for pulling out an "ölmez çiçeği" is 387,141 TL (about 

$11,300) and the Gendarmerie is making this known to citizens, 

as they continue to keep track of the endangered plants. 

 

"Beat & Release": US Sailors "Hooded" by Revenge-minded Turkish Youths, in Izmir

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 3 September 2024)

        Tough to see the sights with your head covered.

The American amphibious landing craft USS Wasp (LHD-1) anchored 

at the port of Izmir and some sailors disembarked to tour the city. 

However (!),  a crowd of Turkish youths, members of the Türkiye 

Gençlik Birliği (TGB/Turkish Youths Union), happened to be on

Alsancak Kıbrıs Şehitleri Caddesi (street along the Izmir shore named

for the Turkish soldiers who died in the Cyprus intervention of 1974).

When the TGB group noticed one of the American sailors they put a

sack over his head and this scene was recorded. Police intervened and

took 15 Turkish youths into custody.  The American Embassy in Ankara

issued a statement thanking Turkish officials for their quick response.

What goes around comes around...hooded Turkish soldiers

in US custody in northern Iraq 20 years ago. 

"Fleece & Release": Loanshark in Doctor's Clothing Traps Real Doctor Into Debt, in Bakırköy

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 2 September 2024)

 Turns out the waters off Bakırköy are infested with them.

Bahran L., claiming to be a doctor, became friendly with and won the

trust of Suad G., an esthetic doctor in Bakırköy, Istanbul. He (somehow)

obtained a 150,000 promissory note from Suad hanım and promptly 

sold it, without her permission, to his partners-in-crime Birdal D. and 

Mehmek K. 

As events proceeded, Bahran L., in reality a loanshark, harassed Suad

hanım, together with his cohorts, for a debt she had no responsibility for.

She sought help from the public prosecutor, filing a criminal complaint

against Bahrah L. for working in Turkey as a renegade doctor and even

performing operations that put many individuals' lives in danger.

In her complaint, her lawyer wrote the following: "Bahran L. and his

two friends sent their goons to Suad hanım's clinic in Bakırköy. This

situation has made it impossible for Suad hanım to attend to her job

and her patients, or even to go to her clinic, because of this 'debt' she

does not owe, putting her in great danger.  We request that the 

prosecutor initiate an investigation and open a case against Bahran L.

and his two associates."

Bahran L. when there's a full moon...

"Dig & Release": Excavations Yield Children's Skeletons From 7,600 Years Ago and a Donkey Image 11,000 Years Old

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 31 August 2024)

    

        Did these people invent the wheel? Maybe gears?

The archeological excavations being conducted by a 15-person team of

archeologists and scientists, led by Dr. Halil Tekin of Hacettepe University,

at the Domuztepe Mound in Türkoğlu, Kahramanmaraş province, are 

continuing.  The mound/settlement is from the Late Neolithic Period and

two skeletons of children, one a baby and the other thought to be a 

child about 6-7 years of age, have been found in separate graves.  The

skeletons are 7,600 years old (!). 

Dr. Tekin explained that: "We found two graves, one that of a baby, next

to the foundations of a building just next to a structure resembling a 

keyhole.  This was quite a surprise for us because graves are found very

rarely at Domuztepe."

He also related that in this same region in recent years another team had 

found around 40 skeletons in an area labeled the "death hole".  Dr. Tekin

added that in the Late Neolithic Period the burials of babies and children 

in or near a building was done to prevent cutting the children's link with

their homes. 

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 1 September 2024)

          Archeologist, bottom left, trying to pin the tail.

At an excavation conducted at Karahantepe in Şanlıurfa province, the 

figure of a running donkey carved into a stone from the Neolithic Period

11,000 years ago (!) has been discovered.  There are more than 250 

"dikiltaş" (erect stone monuments)  at Karahantepe. Prof. Dr. Necmi Karul, 

who is leading the excavations at 10 sites in Karahantepe, said that the 

abodes there contained many grinding stones, indicating that daily life 

went on within the settlement.