"Beat & Release & Kill": After "Assisted Suicide", He Gets Out of Jail Early and Kills Again, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 14 August 2023)

     Can't stay in jail and can't stay outta trouble either.

In an incident known as the "2. Şule Çet" case in Küçükçekmece, 

Istanbul, Ebru Erdem (17) "fell" from the 9th floor of a building to her

death on 20 March 2019.  Police determined that Serdar Taş was with

Ebru hanım at the time so he was taken into custody, along with Kemal

Sönmez, who rented the flat to Taş.  

Taş was tried in connection with Ebru hanım's death and the public 

prosecutor requested a jail sentence of 23 and a half years.  In a 

hearing concerning the case on 2 July 2021, Taş was sentenced to house

arrest and forbidden from leaving Turkey (!).  In any event, Taş remained

in prison on another charge.  On 21 September 2021, the court convicted

Taş of sexually harassing Ebru hanım and sentenced him to 8 years more

in jail. He was acquitted of the charge of murdering Ebru hanım for lack

of evidence.

Nevertheless, Taş was released from jail recently (!) and the night before

last he argued with a taxi driver Ferhat Ceylan in Bahçelievler.  A fight

ensued between the two and Taş shot Ceylan dead.  Taş remains at large.