"Beat & Release": Serial Hostage-Taker Holds Wife for 18 Hours. Last Year His Target was a Barber Shop, in Çorum

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 15 November 2022)

                               "He cut it too short!!"

In Çorum, Mustafa Y. (38) took his estranged wife Merve K. hostage with

a hunting rifle and revolver.  Noise from the house prompted neighbors to

call police and police chief Mehmet Gülser took charge of the negotiations,

persuading Mustafa Y. to surrender after 18 hours (!).  Mustafa K.'s older

sister helped convince her brother to yield. 

Last year in August, Mustafa K. took four people hostage in a barber shop

in Çorum.  He has only recently been discharged from prison.