"Beat & Release": Ingrate Couple Attack Medics and Boast "Don't You Know Who I Am!?", in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 26 December 2024)

           Unfortunately, now we know who they are.

In Istanbul's Beyoğlu district the night before last,  Murat D.

(26) and his girlfriend Buket C. (25) went drinking at a 

nightclub.  When they left Murat D. experienced stomach

pains so he called "112" (Turkey's 1911") for emergency

medical assistance.  Medics arrived and put a needle in his

arm's vein.  

Murat D. did not want to go to a hospital, but the medics

insisted, although they did not allow Buket hanım to get

into the ambulance with him.  This prompted Murat D.

to rip the tube from his arm and get out of the ambulance.

Both he and Buket hanım then began to kick and punch

the medics (!). 

The enraged couple broke the ambulance mirror and the

medics had the two of them taken into custody by police.

Subsequently, they were released by the public prosecutor (!).

The medics told police that Murat D. had said to them: 

"Do you know who I am?!  I'll have you shot in Okmeydanı!"

(where the Istanbul courthouse is located). 

Murat D. won't get rich selling these...