"Beat & Release": Neighbors Beat Him to Death and Tried to Make it Look Like an Accident, in Denizli

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 17 February 2024)

Lesson learned too late: good fences make good neighbors.

In Acıpayam district of Denizli province on the night of 15 September

police were alerted to a motorcycle accident and, upon arriving at the

scene, determined that Şahin Demirten (65) had died.

However (!), Demirten's children, son Ceyhun Demirten and daughter

Ceylan Kaçar suspected foul play and found blood stains and parts of 

wooden bats near the "accident" scene.  The children suspected that 

their father's neighbors had killed him and after an investigation 

neighbors Hasan G. (63), his wife Makbule G. (59), his son Cihan G.

(22) and daughter Serap G. (38) were taken into custody.  

In the ensuing interrogations, Cihan G. confessed to the murder,

"explaining" that he persistently asked Demirten for money and when

Demirtan refused he hit him with a wooden bat.  The other family 

members then dragged Demirten 50 meters away and beat him some

more.  

To give the incident the mask of an accident, the G-family members

created a brake skid mark and Cihan G. reported the "accident" to

the police, giving an "eyewitness" report to the police, as well.  

Yesterday the entire family was arrested, with Cihan G. jailed and the

others released on judicial supervision.