"Beat & Release": Pigeon-lover Killed by His Wife and Her Lover, in Erzurum

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 16 June 2023)

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On 10 June in Erzurum's Aziziye district, Farullah Özdemir (47) and

Georgian national Padine Avcı (35) told the Gendarmerie that they had

found Padine hanım's husband Ayhan Avcı (47) dead in the shack where

he was raising pigeons.  Examing the scene, the Gendarmerie discerned

that Avcı had been killed by a blow from a sharp object to his head. 

Padine hanım explained to the Gendarmerie that "my husband was 

arguing with someone on the phone and said to me 'I'm going to take

care of this matter.'  But when he didn't return at night I called his friend

(!) Fahrullah Özdemir.  We both went to the pigeon shack and found my

husband sprawled out on the floor motionless."  

The Gendarmerie questioned the two as suspects and determined that 

Özdemir's advances toward Padine hanım has disturbed Avcı and prompted

the argument between Padine hanım and Avcı.  Subsequently, Padine hanım

and Özdemir went to the pigeon shack and knocked Avcı unconscious with

a shovel, after which they beat him to death with a hatchet and a scythe. (!)