"Beat & Release": Familial Procreation - His Wife's Siblings are His Children, in Ankara

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 9 January 2023)

If this family didn't have bad luck, they'd have no luck at all.

A remarkable story has emerged from a divorce case and related

fatherhood claim in Ankara courts.  According to the files, Vedat Ö.

was living in a village in Çankırı province when, at 16 years of age,

he had a fight with his father and moved in with his uncle M.K.  

While there, Vedat began to have an affair with M.K.'s wife S.K.  Then, 

upon his return from military service, Vedat Ö. married M.K. and S.K.'s 

older daughter F.Ö. (!) 

The newlyweds moved to Ankara but Vedat Ö. and S.K. continued their

affair.  Meanwhile, F.Ö. gave birth to two children from Vedat Ö., who

came down with a muscle disease that prompted marital problems with

F.Ö.   In the course of the ensuing divorce case, the abovementioned

"dirty laundry" came to light.  It turned out that M.K.'s two youngest 

children's father is, in fact, Vedat Ö. (!) 

So, as a result, Vedat Ö. is both the father and brother-in-law of F.Ö.'s 

two siblings.  M.K.'s two youngest children (!),  having learned

that Vedat Ö. is their father, have filed a paternity suit against him.  

F.Ö. finally learned that her husband had had a long-running affair with 

her mother S.K. and said "during the divorce proceedings, when my

husband told me that my siblings are his children I was shocked.  My

husband had a long affair with my mother and he turned out to be my

siblings' father." (!) 

The divorce and paternity suits were filed in 2022 in Ankara and are 

continuing, with DNA test results awaited.  When M.K. learned 

about S.K.'s affair with Vedat Ö. he divorced her. 

"Beat & Release": Deviant "Undercover" Cop Exposed, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 8 January 2023)

              "I was on a special assignment! Really!"

Workers at a market in Kâğıthane, Istanbul, were shocked by the scenes

they saw when they reviewed security camera footage - a man about 

30 years of age snuck up behind a woman bending over to look at

products and took a picture under her skirt with his cellphone camera (!).

After market workers informed the police of the incident, police 

determined that the deviant was none other than police officer Serdar 

Erdoğan, who is assigned to the Arnavutköy police station in 

Beşiktaş district. (!)   Erdoğan was taken into custody by his 

dumbfounded peers, who handcuffed him behind his back.

An examination of Erdoğan's cellphone revealed quite a few pictures

of women.  He was charged with "violating personal privacy and 

sexual harassment" and removed from duty.  

"Beat & Release": Greek Orthodox Christmas Cross-Retrievers Knock Heads, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 7 January 2023)

                The Turks would call him a "gazi".

A Greek Orthodox mass commemorating Christmas and Jesus's 

baptism was held at the Ortaköy Ayios Fokas Greek Orthodox Church

in Istanbul yesterday.  Following the mass, participants gathered at the

Ortaköy pier to watch the traditional toss of the cross.  Seven

individuals dove into the cold Bosphorus water to retrieve the cross

and Nikolas Özdoğan (16) was the victor. 

However (!) , when diving into the water İlia Davul knocked heads 

with another diver.  He was taken by ambulance to Taksim Training 

and Research Hospital for treatment.  Turkish Coast Guard units were

on hand during the ceremony. 

"Beat & Release": Spanish TV Show "La Casa de Papel"'s Ukrainian Version Flops, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 6 January 2023)

                       The heist was lost in translation.

An attempted bank heist in Üsküdar, Istanbul, brought to mind the 

wildly popular Spanish TV show "La Casa de Papal".  According to

passport records, Ukranian Andrii Sushikov (50) came to Istanbul in

February 2021.  In April of that year, Sushikov rented a safety deposit

box in a bank in Üsküdar and went to the bank to open the box a few

times that month.  

On 14 April 2021, Sushikov came to the bank with a sachel, wanting 

to open his box again.   A bank official escorted Sushikov to the cash

box room and left him there by himself.  However (!),  when the bank

official heard the sound of a number of cash boxes being opened, she

looked in, saw that Sushikov was fiddling with boxes other than his

own and locked him inside.  Police were called and Sushikov was

taken into custody. 

Sushikov was found to have 5 cash box keys and counterfeit dollars

on his person.  A police investigation determined that Sushikov's

fingerprints were on the other cash boxes.  The "expert witness"

report submitted to the court stated that the cash boxes are

opened with an eight-tooth key and each time Sushikov came to the

cash box room he put paste on one of the teeth of his own key in a

successful effort to copy the other keys.  He also had a copy of the

master key that bank officials use in case of emergencies.  (!)

Sushikov rejected the accusations, asserting that the keys and money

he had on him were his property and that the fingerprints found on

the other boxes were not his. (!)   Nevertheless, Sushikov was 

convicted of theft against the owners of the four other boxes and

sentenced to 17 years 6 months in jail.  The sentence was upheld on

appeal. 

"Beat & Release": Taxi Driver Terror, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 4 January 2023)

                        Police are looking for this man.

Berna K. (52) and Yıldız S. (48) went to a friend's birthday party in 

Kadıköy, Istanbul, last Friday night and afterward headed home in

their Jeep at about 0330 in the morning.  When they reached Kızıltoprak

the Jeep was hit from behind by a taxi, not once but twice.  Realizing 

that the taxi driver was intentionally hitting their vehicle, the women

stepped on the gas.  Nevertheless, the taxi driver kept on hitting them

from behind, prompting Yıldız hanım to call the police.

In front of Süleyman Yalçın Hospital in Göztepe, the taxi hit the

women's Jeep again but this time local police heard the noise and

the taxi driver, seeing the police, fled.  Berna hanım explained that 

"we were going along at normal speed and saw his headlights all of

a sudden.  He hit us a couple of times so we sped away, honking the

horn.  He hit us for the fourth time in front of the hospital."

 

We saw his face and took down his license plate number. The front of 

the taxi was damaged quite a bit but our sturdy Jeep was just a bit 

banged up in the back.  The police escorted us all the way home.

The taxi owner was contacted and said he'd rented the vehicle to

an auto gallery for 10 years."  Police are searching for the fugitive

taxi driver. 

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 4 January 2023)

             "Raging Bull" taxi driver Taravis Bikeloğlu.

In Ümraniye, Istanbul, on Sunday evening Koray Akyol was driving

along and refused to allow a taxi driving in the right security lane 

from entering in front of him.  Enraged, the taxi driver followed 

Akyol for 5 kilometers, got out of his taxi at a red light, and began

to curse and scream at Akyol, pounding on and kicking his car for

good measure.  

Akyol noted that he and his girlfriend were frightened.  He put his

car in reverse by mistake and hit the taxi.  Akyol then fled the scene.

He noted that "I didn't confront him at all. He didn't seem to be the

type who would listen to reason.  God knows what he would have

done to us if he'd been able to open my door.  I'm thinking about (!)

filing a complaint.  Such people should be punished right away!"

"Beat & Release": Accidental Pole Dancing on the Ankara Metro

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 2 January 2023)

       Her "partner" was loath to let the dance stop. 

Yesterday evening at around 6 o'clock, a woman riding on the Kızılay-

Batıkent metro line in Ankara got her head stuck in between the metal 

poles that standing riders hold on to.  The woman panicked and despite

calming efforts by her fellow riders, she could not get unstuck.  

The train stopped at the Macunköy station and firefighters were called

to rescue the woman, which they were able to do in about half an hour

by cutting the metal poles.  After the incident was over the train 

continued on its journey.

"Beat & Release": Turkish 'Sigmund Freud' Swindled 25 Women, in Mersin

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(Gazeteduvar website, 7 November 2018)

                      More Casanova than Freud.

In Mersin, Mustafa K., accused of swindling women he dated by 

claiming to be a doctor and academician, has been arrested.  He 

confessed that he read Sigmund Freud's books and conducted

psychological analysis on the women. (!) 

One victim, a woman named A.G., explained that "I had relations with

U.A., who introduced himself to me as an academician.  He withdrew

4,399 TL (about $235) on my credit card.  Then he said he was going 

to give a lecture so he took my computer and I never saw him again."  

Police learned that "U.A." was, in fact, Mustafa K., who similarly 

hoodwinked 25 women.

Mustafa K. confessed to his crimes, relating that "I read Sigmund Freud's

books to be able to analyze women's psychological states." (!)  He was

sentenced to 18 years 4 months in prison, fined 46,160 TL ($2,461) and

taken to jail.  

The resemblance is uncanny...