"Beat & Release": Track Star, With a Curious Past, Can't Outrun a Bullet, in Adana

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 5 July 2022)

                       Fast, but not fast enough.  

In Seyhan, Adana, the day before yesterday Lokman D. (33), who lives

on the 3rd floor of the 5-story apartment building spit on former national

track star Ahmet Pekyen (66) and his son Onur Pekyen from his balcony,

sparking an argument. (!) 

The following morning, Lokman D. began to wait on his balcony for 

Onur bey to head out for work.  Ahmet bey went to the front of the 

apartment building to ensure there would be no trouble, but Lokman D.

shot Ahmet bey dead with a hunting rifle from his balcony.  Lokman D.

was taken into custody at his home.  On the evening of the argument, he

had threatened the Pekyen family, screaming "I will kill you!"

Ahmet Pekyan was selected for the Turkish national track team in middle 

school. He became the premier runner in Turkey and placed 6th in the 

Balkan Championship competition.  After the 1980 coup in Turkey, he

left sports behind him and in 1987 he was accused of participating in the

bombing of the Anavatan Party and taken into custody.  Allegedly, as 

the result of torture in jail, Ahmet Pekyen's spine was injured and 

left 50% handicapped.  In any case, he was absolved of guilt (!) and 

served as the head of the Anatolian Peoples Association for a time. 

               Spit and bullets spray from this balcony. 

"Beat & Release": Mercy Killing - Anesthetize First and Then Shoot, Burn and Pour Acid, in Bodrum

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 4 July 2022)

                     Would that he was there instead. 

In Bodrum district of Muğla province, a body found in a sack turned 

out to be that of Ümit Erol (50), who worked in the real estate and car

rental sectors.  As the result of a debt problem, Erol was first 

anesthetized, then shot with a revolver and finally burned to death. 

Acid was poured on the body, as well, in an effort to completely 

destroy it.  Six people were taken into custody, one of them an 

anesthesia technician. (!)

On the night of 28 June, citizens noticed a foul smell coming from a pile

of dirt alongside Ortakent University Avenue.  Police arrived at the 

scene between the Ortakent Dilekyolu intersection and the Fine Arts 

Faculty building and found the sand-filled sack with a body in it

underneath the dirt pile.  

Mercy killers hope for mercy: "We didn't want him to feel

any pain."

Police found no ID on the badly mutilated body of the mature male and

sent it to the police lab, where it was determined during an autopsy that 

the death was the result of a murder (!).  In the ensuing investigation, 

police saw that Ümit Erol's older brother had filed a missing person 

notice, saying that his brother, a realtor in Çiftlik village, had disappeared 

on 20 June.

As a result, car rental manager H.T.A., his mother F.N.A. and anesthesia

technician B.A. (!),  were taken into custody along with G.İ., E.D. and

A.T.  All of them were jailed except A.T., who was released on judicial

supervision.  

There had been a debt problem between Ümit Erol and the suspects, who

first had the anesthesia expert put Erol to sleep.  Then he was shot with a

revolver and killed.  Subsequently, the suspects tried to burn the body and

then poured acid on it, before taking the body 30 kilometers away from 

Çiftlik village to Ortakent University Avenue, where it was buried in the

sack beneath the pile of dirt. 

Çiftlik village is at bottom right.  Ortakent is on the left.

"Beat & Release": Ambulances and Medics Under Attack, in Antalya and Elazığ

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 3 July 2022)

Caner D. in rock-throwing mode under the ABA sign.

Medics went to a home in the Elmalı neighborhood of Muratpaşa,

Antalya, at 0330 hours in response to a report of someone suffering

chest pains.  The medics took patient Caner D. by the arms and brought

him to the ambulance, asking that he lie on the stretcher there.  But

Caner D. cursed at and threatened the medics when they told him he 

was lying on the stretcher incorrectly.  

Caner D. demanded another ambulance and medical team so he was

taken out of the ambulance but continued cursing and then attacked 

medical technician Musa Özbay.  To ward off Caner D.'s attack, Özbay

pushed him, prompting Caner D. to grab a rock and knock Özbay to 

the ground and kick him.

Meanwhile, the other two medics locked themselves in the ambulance

in fear of Caner D., who threw the rock at the ambulance, breaking its

window and causing body dents.  The attack was captured on a store's

security camera.  Caner D. fled but was captured and jailed. 

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 3 July 2022)

              Ambulances need a police escort anymore.

Yesterday in the Cumhuriyet neighborhood of Elazığ, construction 

worker Naim Demir (42) fell from the scaffolding.  When an ambulance

arrived later than expected, Demir's fellow workers attacked the medics,

who, ergo, were unable to treat the seriously injured Demir (!). 

Ultimately, some citizens stepped in to help the medics get Demir into

the ambulance but despite all efforts at Fırat University Hospital, Demir

could not be saved.  After an autopsy, the body of Demir, the father of

four children, will be buried Genç district of Bingöl province. 

   

"Pepublic of Turkey" ID Cards Available, Courtesy of Turkmenistan Gang, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 2 July 2022)

 

  A branch of the U.S. Pepublican Party's 'Fake News' bureau. 

Police in Istanbul got a tip about a gang preparing fake ID cards for

illegal migrants and found that on the fake ID cards the English word

'Republic' was misspelled as 'Pepublic'. (!) 

After an investigation, police identified the gang as being comprised

of individuals from Turkmenistan and their office in the Aksaray

neighborhood was raided on 24 June, along with some other addresses,

with 6 people taken into custody.  The raids resulted in the seizure of 

all sorts of fake government documents and diplomatic stamps related 

to residency in Turkey, as well as 16,450 counterfeit U.S. dollars and

17,000 TL (about $1,000).  

In addition, machines and devices like computers and printers

for making the fake cards were seized.  Two Turkmenistanis were

jailed but the other four were released on judicial supervision. (!) 

The gang gave advice to their 'customers', such as "you need a high

school diploma to be able to easily get a job" and, of course, the gang 

could provide such fake diplomas.  The fake stamps and seals of foreign

consulates were used, as well, and university diplomas from '19 Mayıs

University' and 'Uşak University' were offered to make 'university 

graduates'.  The gang also produced fake 'visitor documents' to enable

their 'customers' to visit friends and relatives in prison.  Prices for the 

documents ranged from 1,000 to 5,000 Euros. 

  

Suspects can now avail themselves of prison educational

resources...better late than never. 

U.S. Renditions Drug Barron-Bomber to Turkey

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 1 July 2022)

CEO of international conglomerate DBC (Drugs, Bombs

 & Chaos) gets US ride to Turkey. 

Turkey put out an alarm for the arrest of drug barron Mehmet Gezer for

"being a member of an armed international terror organization and for

harming the unity of the state and the nation's solidarity."  The "red 

alert" noted that Gezer has a record of 17 crimes.

It turned out that Gezer had been arrested in the USA so, through 

INTERPOL, the USA agreed to send Gezer to Turkey and he was 

brought to Istanbul, accompanied by US police.  At Istanbul Airport

Gezer was turned over to Ankara anti-terror police and brought to 

Ankara for interrogation. 

Gezer is a suspect in the 11 May 2013 bombing in Reyhanlı, near the

border with Syria, that left 52 people dead.  In his statement, bombing

planner Yusuf Nazik explained that "I received instructions for the 

attack" from Gezer, who was then in Syria.  The Reyhanlı bombing 

was the second-worst bombing attack in Turkey, after the bombing at 

the Ankara train station on 15 October 2015 that killed 103 people. 

"Operation Iron Fist" Pummels Fortunes of 3 Iron-Steel Sector Gangs

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 30 June 2022)

                            "What took you so long?"

310 ten people have been taken into custody in "Operation Iron Fist",

aimed at 3 different crime groups suspected of manipulating the iron 

and steel market, in Ankara and 19 other provinces.  The statement of

Erol Evcil, one of those held for 8 days, will be taken last. He will

face about 700 questions, based on tapes, technical surveillance and

the statements of other suspects. Evcil has been involved in loansharking

and other crimes for decades. 

Two other crime group leaders, Hüseyin E. and Melih K., the owners

of different iron-steel companies, will also be interrogated last.  In

connection with the operation, the decision was made to seize Evcil's
private jet, worth 300 million TL ($1,800,000), which was brought

to Turkey from London last night.  

39 companies linked to the 3 crime groups have been taken over by

state administrators and 8,690 bank accounts tied to the suspects have

been frozen.  Additionally, 261 residences, houses, plots of land and

factories have been seized and 327 luxury vehicles towed to impound

lots.  About 500 million worth of gold, cash and jewels have been 

confiscated from the suspects, including $1 million from one factory's

cash box and 10 million TL from a wooden closet in another factory. 

12 unlicensed guns, 4,730 bullets and 3 pump-action rifles were

seized, as well, along with a plethora of digital material and documents.

Russian Skies: Great Semicircle Route & NATO HQS Photo Album

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 29 June 2022)

THY to the rescue click here for more about THY

flights to Russia.

 

            You can get there from here...eventually. 

Right after the Russia-Ukraine war began Turkish Airlines was forced

to fly a circuitous route to avoid Ukraine in order to reach Moscow.

This change has meant the need for 5 tons more fuel. Now, a trip

that used to take 2.5 hours is nearly 5 hours long.  Ticket prices have

also been affected and now a 3-day round-trip Istanbul-Moscow ticket

costs around 30,000 TL ($1,800).

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 29 June 2022)

           If you're thinking of dropping (something) in...

While the NATO summit continued in Madrid, a surprise message

came from Moscow.  The Russian space agency Roscosmos published

a photo of the NATO summit site, complete with its coordinates, as well

as those of the NATO HQS in the USA, UK, France, Belgium and 

Germany. (!)

Roscosmos explained that "As 30 NATO leaders are gathering in

Madrid, we have prepared a photo album, as a gift, of the summit site

and the NATO HQS of five members. We've added the coordinates,

too."

                                 Great sense of humor.