"Beat & Release": Son, Accompanying Mom During Her Hospital Stay, Viciously Slays Her, in Mersin

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 5 April 2024)

Mother-son relationships can be fraught. For example...

In February, Selma Çiftçi (61) entered Tarsus State Hospital in Mersin

for a brain operation.  Her son Murat Arslan (32) had been her "refakatçi"

(person, usually a relative, who accompanies the patient during the

hospital stay) while there. 

However (!), yesterday at 4 o'clock in the morning for some unknown

reason mother and son argued, prompting Murat to cut his mother's 

throat and ankles. Not content with that, Murat then shot Selma hanım

in the head with an unlicensed revolver. (!)

Not surprisingly, Selma hanım passed away while hospital security 

guards took Murat into their custody, subsequently turning him over 

to the police.  In his statement to police, Murat, a drug addict, 

claimed that he could not recall killing his mother (!)