"Beat & Release": Builder of "Slice of Heaven" Collapsed Residence Caught Fleeing to Montenegro

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 11 February 2023)

                       Looks more like a slice of hell. 

The builder of the 250-unit Rönesans Rezidans building in Hatay that

collapsed in Monday's earthquake, Mehmet Yaşar Coşkun, has been 

arrested at Istanbul Airport as he was trying to flee to Montenegro.  

The Rönesans Rezidans on İnönü Boulevard in Hatay's Antakya district

was built in 2013 by the firm Antis Yapı and the 12-story building was

advertised as "a slice of heaven". (!)  It was one of the most expensive

places to live in Hatay but it could not withstand the earthquake and

collapsed.  There were more than 1,000 people living in the building at

the time of the earthquake and many of them remain under the rubble. 

Many postings about Antis Yapı have been circulating on social media.

Yesterday police received a tip that owner Coşkun was attempting to 

leave the country but he was arrested at Istanbul Airport carrying 

10,000 Euros in cash and a ticket to Montenegro. 

Rescue efforts at the Rönesans Rezidans building are continuing, while

hopeful relatives wait for word of their loved ones.  Yasemin Çinkaya (38)

was pulled alive from the rubble but her husband, oncologist Dr. Ahmet

Çinkaya (43), and their son and daughter all died.  

Just 11 days ago, Ayşe Çinkaya (70) came to visit her son and his family.

She told friends that "it hasn't even been a year since they moved here.  

They were living on the 8th floor.  They bought it thinking it was 'new

and sturdy'.  In fact, when I asked them 'why did you buy this house in 

an earthquake area?' they told me "we were told that it would withstand

a 9.0 earthquake." (!) 

"Beat & Release": 84 Hours Later, Family Stuck in Elevator Car Under Earthquake Rubble Rescued, in Elbistan

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(Mynet.com website, 10 February 2023)

                   Sometimes you have to break the rules. 

After 84 hours (!) stuck in an elevator car under the rubble of Monday's 

earthquake, the Kılıç family of Elbistan district of Kahramanmaraş 

province was rescued alive.  The family - father, mother and four 

children - lived in the 7-story Kübra apartment building.  As rescuers 

were combing through the debris they heard the family's cries and,

with great difficulty, dug out the elevator car and freed the family. 

"Beat & Release": Earthquake Victims' Social Media Teasers Arrested

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 8 February 2023)

                                 Kahramanmaraş

A victim of the earthquake that struck Kahramanmaraş on Monday sent

a message from his cell phone from underneath the rubble of a collapsed

building, pleading for help.  A sarcastic response posted on social media

teased "we're coming to save you" amid laughter. (!) 

That response on social media garnered widespread condemnation and 

it was determined that the culprits were Yunus Sarıdağ and Mesut B.,

prompting Burdur-Gölhisar prosecutor Merve Altun to have the two

taken into custody.  In her statement in this regard, Prosecutor Altun

wrote that "it may be that earthquake victims trapped under rubble 

will be unable to reach rescuers as their cell phone charge runs out.  

Here, the intention has been to increase the trauma of a person hoping

for help."  In its response, the court ordered the jailing of Sarıdağı and

Mesut B. 

                                 The joke's on him.

H.T.Ö., another individual who made fun of citizens trapped under 

earthquake rubble, was taken into custody in Istanbul but released 

after processing at a police station. 

"Beat & Release": Microchip ID's Ankara Cat, Now a Swiss Citizen

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 6 February 2023)

                 A chip that worked like a Swiss watch. 

In 2019, Martine Berset, a diplomat serving in the Swiss embassy in 

Ankara, opened her house to street cats and dogs.  Berset fed stray

animals on the street and brought mother cats and their new-born

kittens into her home.  In 2022, in accordance with a Turkish 

government order, she had ID chips attached to the cats but in March

of that year, three of the cats disappeared. 

In September 2022, Berset's tour at the embassy ended and she went

back to Switzerland with five cats.  In October, a cat that had been 

injured by a pack of dogs in Ankara's Elmadağ district was brought

to a veterinarian who read the chip and saw that the cat was "Erin",

one of Berset's three lost cats. 

Veterinarian Aydın Aksu, who put the chips on Berset's cats in the 

first place, contacted Berset with the news of Erin's discovery.  

Berset, now retired, came to Ankara from Switzerland in December

and brought Erin back with her to her country.  

                 We'll all be getting them pretty soon. 

"Beat & Release": Stars of Killer's "Movie" Die Off in the Early Scenes, in Antalya

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 3 February 2023)

"Director" Ahmet K. (a bit out of focus) and his (late) "cast". 

In Antalya's Aksu district, Ahmet K. summoned Güloluk village chief 

Mahmut Şimşek, İbrahim Topdemir and Galip Topdemir, saying "I'll 

pay your gambling debts".  The three then went by a pick-up truck, 

with license plate number 07 BCT 520, to meet Ahmet K.

However (!), an argument erupted among them and Ahmet K. shot all

three of them dead.  Ahmet K. also seriously wounded Halil Ülkü near

the scene of the murders.  A Gendarmerie unit was able to track down

Ahmet K. and take him into custody.  It was noticed that on his social

media account, next to his name Ahmet K., had written "we're just at 

the start of this film."

"Beat & Release": One List You Don't Want to be On - "Sarı Memet"'s, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 2 February 2023)

"Sarı (Santa) Memet" - he's makin' a list and checkin' it twice. 

Mehmet B. (37), who lives in Istanbul, went to prison for involvement in

a crime.  He was released at the beginning of last month during his trial.

After his release, the sound of gunfire began to increase in the Kulaksız

area of Beyoğlu.  Mehmet B., whose nickname is "Sarı Memet", had 

made a list of his friends and acquaintances who ignored him while he

was in prison.  (!)

On 17 January, "Sarı Memet" met with two people on his list, Ertan K.

and Mehmet E., on a pretext and proceeded to shoot them both in their

legs.  In subsequent days he did the same thing to five others on his list,

shooting them all in their legs.  "Sarı Memet" has been able to elude 

police since then but he emerged the day before yesterday in Kasımpaşa,

where he shot Erdinç G. (61) in his legs as revenge for ignoring him 

while in prison. "Sarı Memet", who has a police record of 10 crimes,

is still on the lam. 

  

"Beat & Release": Her Basic Instinct is Indecent Exposure, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 1 February 2023)

                         H.K. in a more demure moment.

The Istanbul public prosecutor, upon seeing a live video posted on 

social media of a woman in erotic poses with children present in

the room, and related reports in the news media, took action based on

the probability that the woman could be guilty of "obscene and 

shameless actions".

Police determined that the woman in question was H.K. and they

raided her home in Istanbul's Sultanbeyli district yesterday morning.

After being taken into custody, H.K. said in her statement to police 

that "the posted video is an old one.  At that time my husband was 

gambling and was in debt.  I made the video to raise money."  

Additionally, H.K.'s lawyer Ömer Tekin Türker said that a couple of

years ago when H.K. was living apart from her husband she was 

working as a cleaner and using social media.  During a live video

she "accidently" (!) opened her skirt and immediately shut down the

video but it was shared by others.  

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