"Sting & Release": Wasps Take Revenge in Isparta; Mobile Hives Amp Up Bees' Productivity, in Kars

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(Hürriyet Newspaper,  2 August 2026)

               Wasp to Zafer bey: "Vengeance is mine!"

Zafer Kaya (51), a furniture upholsterer who poured hot water into the 

nest of wasps that were bothering his customers in his workplace in 

Isparta and was stung by the wasps that came out, lost his week-long 

battle for life in the hospital on his birthday today (!). 

Vengeful wasps emerged from the nest and stung Kaya. Having an 

allergy to wasp stings (!), Kaya was taken to the hospital by his family.

He received treatment at Isparta City Hospital for a week but passed 

away this morning. It was learned that today was his birthday, and that 

he had lost one of his two children to carbon monoxide poisoning 

approximately 10 years ago.

Kaya's funeral service was held at Erenler Mosque in the Davraz 

neighborhood, after which he was buried in Karaağaç Cemetery.

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 2 August 2026)

                             "Have hives, will travel".

Yücel Üzeyir (50), who is engaged in beekeeping, his family profession, 

in Kars, transformed a truck trailer into a solar-powered mobile honey 

production facility with a project whose design, installation and 

engineering belong to him. Placing 340 beehives in 8 layers on the trailer, 

Üzeyir produces 6-7 tons of organic and geographically indicated honey 

in the Kars highlands without tiring the bees with his mobile facility 

equipped with a smart climate control system.

Üzeyir also installed a 10-kilowatt solar panel system for his energy needs. 

Thanks to the smart climate control infrastructure in the system, which 

generates its own electricity, suitable living conditions for the beehives 

are continuously maintained. Üzeyir, who can easily reach the high-altitude 

and flora-rich plateaus of Kars, aims to produce 6-7 tons of honey.

Yücel bey moonlights as an action-movie star.

Üzeyir stated, “We have created an innovation to produce organic honey 

and protect the ecological balance in nature. We transformed this massive 

structure into a mobile bee production facility with a capacity of 340 hives, 

the design, installation, engineering, and patent of which are entirely my 

own. We gathered 340 hives in an eight-story system on a single truck trailer. 

We established a system that generates its own energy with 10-kilowatt 

solar panels. Without tiring the bees, we produce completely organic certified 

and geographically indicated honey in the high-altitude geography and 

plateaus of Kars, without harming nature.”

"Glance & Release": Recidivist Criminals Exchange Bad Looks, Then Shoot Dead Peacemaker Baker, in Istanbul

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(Akşam Newspaper, 1 August 2026)

Another entry in the "no good deed goes unpunished" file.

In Istanbul's Bayrampaşa district, bakery owner Mehmet Pehlivan, 

who tried to break up a fight that started with the phrase "what are you 

looking at?" in front of Pehlivan's bakery, was shot in the chest and died. 

Three suspects with extensive criminal records were apprehended and 

referred to the courthouse in connection with the incident.

According to information obtained, yesterday around 4:50 PM, in the 

İsmetpaşa neighborhood of Bayrampaşa district, on Tuna Street, Çiğdem 

Canbaz and her daughter were passing in front of a bakery when an 

argument broke out between them and a customer, Raşit Özbek, over 

the phrase "what are you looking at?".  (!) The argument ended quickly, 

but 25 minutes later, Çiğdem Canbaz and her husband, Enis Emre 

Canbaz, arrived at the scene and began assaulting the man sitting in 

front of the bakery. As the fight escalated, Raşit Özbek's father, Cemil 

Özbek, also joined in.

During the incident, Enis Emre Canbaz pulled out a gun from his 

waistband, and the gun went off during the ensuing struggle. As a 

result, the bakery owner, Mehmet Pehlivan, was wounded in the chest. 

Enis Emre Canbaz fled the scene. Police and medical teams were 

dispatched to the scene following a report. The teams launched an 

operation to apprehend the suspects. After reviewing security camera 

footage, the suspects, Enis Emre Canbaz, Raşit Özbek, and his father 

Cemil Özbek, were taken into custody.

During their investigation at the scene, the teams recovered 4 empty 

shell casings, 1 live round, and 1 unlicensed handgun. Further 

investigation revealed that suspect Raşit Ö. had 9 previous criminal 

records, suspect Enis Emre C. had 13, and his wife, Çiğdem C., had 3. 

The suspects, Raşit Özbek, Cemil Özbek, and Enis Emre Canbaz, 

were taken to the Istanbul Courthouse in Çağlayan after their 

procedures at the police station. 

Speaking about the incident, a citizen named Nevzat Koç said, 

"Someone was looking at someone else here. The woman went and 

told her husband. Her husband came here. Mehmet Abi (Pehlivan) 

intervened during their fight. When he intervened, the bullet from the 

gun hit him. That's the whole story. I used to buy bagels from Mehmet 

Abi, I was very happy with him. He never harmed anyone. He was 

injured here and passed away in the hospital."