20 Ocak 2024 Cumartesi

"Beat & Release": Dad Stifles Son's Basketball Dreams and Pays With His Life, in Istanbul

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 20 January 2024)














                   Father knows best...sometimes.

15-year-old K.K. plays on the Galatasaray High School basketball team
in Istanbul and never misses watching NBA and Euroleague games on TV.
He lives with his family in Sancaktepe district but his schoolwork had 
been suffering lately because of his extreme interest in basketball.  As a
result, his father, lawyer Fatih Gürbüz K., told K.K. that he could not 
play on the team until his grades improved. 

The evening before last father and son had another argument about this
issue, with Fatih Gürbüz K. forbidding his son to play on the team. The 
angry young K.K. secluded himself in his room.  Yesterday at 6 o'clock
in the morning, K.K. was leaving for school with his mother but told
her he had to go back to their flat to retrieve something.  At this point,
he stabbed his sleeping father 20 times and when he didn't return his
mother came to the flat to find her husband in a pool of blood. 

















The mother called police and medics but it was too late for Fatih Gürbüz
bey.  K.K. was taken into police custody and in his statement he 
"explained" that "my father forbade me to play basketball because my
grades were bad and he took me off the team.  I got angry and that's why
this happened."







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