"Fleece & Release": Bank Worker Shuffled $1 Million to Her Own and Fiancé's Accounts, in Konya

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 3 July 2024)

Wedding invitations being prepared in the prison print shop.

In Konya's Ereğli district, the inspectors for a private bank suspected 

that bank worker Perihan Y. (37) had embezzled funds.  As the probe

deepened, the inspectors discovered that Perihan hanım had shuffled

a bit more than 37 million TL (about $1.1 million) into her own and

her fiancé Settar A.'s bank accounts in the course of three months. (!) 

Both Perihan hanım and Settar bey were taken into custody yesterday.

It turned out that Settar bey had transferred a portion of the embezzled

money to his crypto money account.  After processing, they were both

jailed. 

These things happen even in the middle of nowhere!

"Beat & Release": Woman Pleads for Help Against "Unrestrained" Maniacal Hubby, in Adana

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 2 July 2024)

                                        Spare the rod...please!

In Seyhan district of Adana, Fadime D. (44) eloped with Ali D. (47)

25 years ago.  However (!), from day one Ali D. subjected Fadime

hanım to physical and psychological brutality, never worked a day and

relied on Fadime hanım, who worked at odd jobs, to provide sustenance 

for the family.

In May, Ali D. brought a hunting rifle to their house and threatened to 

kill Fadime hanım and their children.  Police came and put Ali D. in jail

for the night, while a judge issued a restraining order against him.  On 

20 June Fadime hanım sued for divorce.  Four days later Ali D. learned

of this development, came to the house when no one was there and

proceeded to smash everything, to include appliances, doors windows

and even solar panels, with a metal rod. (!)

When Fadime hanım came home and found the house in ruins she 

filed a police complaint, saying in exasperation: "I tried to divorce him

many times before but someone always intervened. I managed despite

his blows and curses. But when he brought the gun I really started to 

get frightened.  My eldest son is in his last year at university.  With 

great difficulty, I raised him and put him through school.  I don't want

to see him die in front of me.  Please! Someone help me! He's calling

my bosses and threatening them so they'll fire me.  After I filed the

divorce suit he really went off the rails.  Right now he's roaming the

streets freely. I'm pleading! Save me!"

"Crush & Release": Wedding's Uninvited Guest - Cement Mixer, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 1 July 2024)

                        Wedding crasher - literally. 

In Istanbul's Kağıthane district yesterday at around 1 o'clock in the 

afternoon, a cement mixer driven by Hüseyin Toyga, trailing cement 

drops and moving at high speed, failed to negotiate a curve in the 

road, crashing on top of a parked bride's car and hitting another car

in the bridal convoy, as well. 

8-year-old Emin Berk Nalcı was crushed under the cement mixer and

died at the scene.  Medics tried to calm the child's distraught mother.

Driver Toyga was injured in the crash and brought to a hospital for 

treatment, after which he was taken into custody by police. The crash

was captured on security cameras. 

"Fleece & Release": Buy a Time-Share and Use It Once Every 5,000 Years...Maybe, in Yalova

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 30 June 2024)

                       Here's to a (very, very) long life!

Police in Yalova got a tip that a hotel in Termal district was inviting

people for free vacations but when the vacationers arrived they were

subjected to hard-sell psychological pressure to buy time-shares. 

Simultaneous police raids in Yalova, Istanbul, Aydın, Adana and 

Kütahya resulted in 30 suspects being arrested. 

Among those taken into custody were ringleader Orhan Karadereli, 

his wife Elvan Karadereli, CEO Tevfik Murat Talas and Yusuf Atala,

a well-known actor who was the gang's commercial face in TV ads.

The suspects hoodwinked at least 36,000 (!) people, including judges,

prosecutors and high-level bureaucrats, out of about 36 million TL

(a bit more than $1 million).  It turned out, though, that those who 

agreed to the time-share agreement would get to use the property

once every 5,000 years. (!) 

"Beat & Release": Wife's "Suicide" Got Big "Assist" From Hubby, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 29 June 2024)

            He told her in parting "I'm here to help."

On 24 April 2022, Yalçın Narman, a worker at a textile firm in the 

Fatih district of Istanbul, called police to report that his wife Fatma

Narman (21) had committed suicide.  When police arrived at the

home they found Fatma hanım's body lying at the entrance to the

bedroom with gunshot wounds in her hip and chest. (!)

Yalçın bey "explained" to police that "when I came home I found

my wife lying wounded at the bedroom door and I saw that her

revolver was by her side.  In a panic, I grabbed the gun and put it

in a drawer."  Needless to say, the police were suspicious about

Fatma hanım having shot herself (!) in the hip and chest and Yalçin

bey's action in hiding the gun. 

Further investigation revealed that there were no gunpowder burns

on Fatma hanım's clothing, indicating that the bullets had entered

her body from a distance.  This analysis prompted Yalçın bey to

change his story and admit that "there was an accident".  He added

that he was regretful and that "I had no reason to kill my wife."  

In any event, Yalçın bey was sentenced to life in prison.  His brother

Bahattin Narman was acquitted of any involvement. 

"Beat & Release": Shopping Spree Prompts Woman to Stage Robbery as Distraction, in Antalya

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(Cumhuriyet Newspaper, 28 June 2024)

                      Royalty: Drama Queen Ayşe.

In Antalya's Manavgat district the day before yesterday, Ayşe Demirtaş

called "112" (Turkey's "911") and said she'd been beaten and robbed.

Police and medics arrived and determined that Ayşe hanım had indeed

suffered a blow to her head. She "explained" to police that while she

was at home with her toddler daughter a knock on the door resulted in

her letting a "cargo courier" into her house. 

According to Ayşe hanım, the masked intruder hit her and she passed 

out.  When she came to the masked intruder wanted her to tell him

where her gold was and he threatened to abscond with her child if she

refused to tell him.  Left with no choice, Ayşe hanım told police she

gave the thief five gold bracelets and two pairs of gold earrings. 

However (!), police determined from security cameras that there was

no one fitting the description of the intruder that Ayşe hanım gave them

in the area of her building at that time.  Ayşe hanım then came clean

and admitted that after she'd spent 20,000 TL (about $60) on shopping

without telling her husband she resorted to this fantastic tale to cover 

her tracks.  She was charged with "making up a crime". (!)

"Beat & Release": Tattoo Leads Police to Suspects in Chinese Merchant's Bizarre Death Plot, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 27 June 2024)

                                 One tattoo too many.

In Zeytinburnu district of Istanbul on 21 June, textile businessman Hasan

Nur (61), of Chinese descent, was beaten and killed by a group that 

invaded his home.   Working from security camera images, police

noticed a tattoo on the arm of one suspect (!), which led them to all the 

other individuals involved in the assault.  Subsequently, Bilalijiang A. 

(17), Abdulsalam K. (17), Murat K. (25), Ömer U. (19) and Arafat A. 

(24) were arrested in a police raid on a house in Kağıthane. 

Police determined that that assault was, in fact, a robbery and $8,300

was recovered from the suspects, who all have long police records. 

However (!), Yımaran Y. (28), also taken into custody in connection 

with the death of his brother-in-law Hasan Nur, had a surprising 

"explanation" for the assault: that Nur had forced him to take a Koran 

course, which (somehow!) resulted in Yımaran Y.'s mother being 

imprisoned in China.  According to Yımaran Y., his anger at this 

development was the reason he planned Nur's death and had the suspects 

carry out the attack with the lure of the large amount of money in Nur's 

possession.