"Beat & Release": It's the Heat! Deadly Rent and Loud Music Disputes in Rize and Adana

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 26 July 2023)

                                          Rent-a-killer

The evening before last in Rize, Mücahit Kazancı (27) met with Hilal

Ak, the nephew of his renter, whose rent Kazancı wanted to raise.  

(Predictably) an argument erupted between Kazancı and Ak, along with

Ak's friends Sedat S. (24) and Miraç B. (25).  In the ensuing fight, 

Kazancı stabbed all three of them, killing Ak.  Sedat S. remains in 

intensive care, while Miraç B.'s condition is said to be good. Kazancı

was arrested and jailed. 

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türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 26 July 2023)

                                     It's cooler inside.

In Adana's Yüreğir district, coffeehouse manager Muhammet Ali Binen

got into an argument a few days ago with neighbors Tugay Kopal and

Mahir Palamut, who complained about the loud music coming from the 

coffeehouse.   Bystanders were able to squelch the argument then but the

enmity between the parties remained. 

Last evening, Binen came in his car to the coffeehouse and the argument

with Kopal and Palamut resumed, prompting Binen to grab a pump-action

hunting rifle from his car.  He shot both Kopal and Palamut but then put

the rifle to his own head and pulled the trigger (!).  Kopal and Binen were

pronounced dead at the scene, while the seriously injured Palamut was

taken to a hospital.