"Beat & Release": Bad Day for Mothers-in-Law

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(Sözcü Newspaper, 10 August 2021)

                                    First green coffin...

In Ziya Gökalp village of Karaman province, Doğan T. went to the home

of his mother-in-lawNecla Köçyiğit to see his estranged wife Özlem T.

and their two children.  During the ensuing discussion, tempers flared 

and Doğan T. stabbed Özlem T., his brother-in-law Osman B. and Necla

hanım, who died from her wounds.  Özlem T. and her older brother 

Osman B. were injured.  Doğan T. was captured by police. 

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(Milliyet Newspaper, 10 August 2021)

                                   ...second green coffin.

In Kumluca district of Antalya province, Ali Alataş (55) entered the

home of his ex-wife Gülcan Kılınç (35) and his ex-mother-in-law Gülizar

Kılınç (54) through the balcony and shot them both to death.  Previously,

Alataş had kidnapped Gülcan hanım at gunpoint and she subsequently

obtained a restraining order against him.

Local shopkeepers noted that Alataş staked out the house for 24 hours

and yesterday at 4 o'clock in the morning he entered via the first-floor

balcony, intent on killing Gülcan hanım, the mother of their three

children, who divorced him 3 years ago.  While Alataş was killing the

two women, the three children were also in the house, as were Gülizar

hanım's two children. 

Alataş was captured by police soon after the murders.  A neighbor told

reporters that "at 0345 hours I was awakened by gunshots. I heard a man

shouting 'I have nothing to lose!' and a woman pleading 'don't kill my

mother!'  Then I heard five gunshots.  The man climbed down a rope

and escaped.  He had previously kidnapped his ex-wife and forced her

into a car at gunpoint."

               Couldn't bear being an "ex" son-in-law.

A local shopkeeper noted that "he was roaming around here for 24 hours,

talking with the kids on the sidewalk.  He was waiting across from the

apartment building in front of the PTT building, watching who was going

in and out of the apartment building, saying 'if I see a man go in I'll grab

him and kill the both of them.'   He'd been fined many times for violating

restraining orders."