’Action needed to tackle crime rise’
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Hürriyet
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Haziran 09, 2009 00:00
ANKARA - Concerned with the increase in the number of violent crimes in recent months, Cevdet Selvi of the opposition Republican People’s Party prepares a report on the matter and wants Parliament to take urgent action in order to prevent lasting damage to society from such incidents
A member of the main opposition party has prepared a parliamentary report to investigate a recent increase in the number of violent crimes.
Cevdet Selvi, a deputy leader of the Republican People’s Party, or CHP, along with some of his colleagues, prepared a report on the increased rate of atrocious crimes within the past five months. The report states that the story of an atrocity appears in the media almost daily and said that the increasing frequency of such acts was deeply affecting society and and threatening its structure.
Recent incidents
The report includes questions such as "Are we experiencing societal rage?" and "Are we transforming into a society of anger and violence?" and demands that Parliament take action. The events featured in the study as examples of societal rage were:
Feb. 23: An man in the southeastern city of Van committed suicide after shooting his wife and children.
March 4: Münevver Karabulut, a 17-year-old girl, was found dismembered in a garbage bin in Istanbul’s Etiler neighborhood.
March 6: Three corpses belonging to two women and a child were found in an empty field in Ankara’s İvedik area.
March 8: A man in the Black Sea region’s Şahincili area of Ordu shot his wife and son.
March 20: Necdet Ergün killed his older brother, aunt and four nieces in the Halaç village of Çatalca.
May 4: Forty-four people were killed, 21 of them children, when gunmen opened fire during an engagement ceremony in the southeastern province of Mardin’s Bilge village.
May 11: A woman in the Aegean city of İzmir strangled her three-month-old son and stabbed her four-year-old daughter.
May 12: A man in the Aegean provice of Aydın’s Nazilli area committed suicide after shooting his wife.
May 26: A man in the Yavaşlı village of Konya in Central Anatolia shot down his older sister, brother-in-law, niece and the older sister’s daughter-in-law.
June 2: A man detained on suspicion of committing eight murders is believed to have gone on his killing frenzy in the space of a single day lasting from noon to night.
June 3: A woman was arrested on suspicion of setting fire to the four-year-old child of her neighbor in the central Anatolian city of Konya.
Cevdet Selvi, a deputy leader of the Republican People’s Party, or CHP, along with some of his colleagues, prepared a report on the increased rate of atrocious crimes within the past five months. The report states that the story of an atrocity appears in the media almost daily and said that the increasing frequency of such acts was deeply affecting society and and threatening its structure.
Recent incidents
The report includes questions such as "Are we experiencing societal rage?" and "Are we transforming into a society of anger and violence?" and demands that Parliament take action. The events featured in the study as examples of societal rage were:
Feb. 23: An man in the southeastern city of Van committed suicide after shooting his wife and children.
March 4: Münevver Karabulut, a 17-year-old girl, was found dismembered in a garbage bin in Istanbul’s Etiler neighborhood.
March 6: Three corpses belonging to two women and a child were found in an empty field in Ankara’s İvedik area.
March 8: A man in the Black Sea region’s Şahincili area of Ordu shot his wife and son.
March 20: Necdet Ergün killed his older brother, aunt and four nieces in the Halaç village of Çatalca.
May 4: Forty-four people were killed, 21 of them children, when gunmen opened fire during an engagement ceremony in the southeastern province of Mardin’s Bilge village.
May 11: A woman in the Aegean city of İzmir strangled her three-month-old son and stabbed her four-year-old daughter.
May 12: A man in the Aegean provice of Aydın’s Nazilli area committed suicide after shooting his wife.
May 26: A man in the Yavaşlı village of Konya in Central Anatolia shot down his older sister, brother-in-law, niece and the older sister’s daughter-in-law.
June 2: A man detained on suspicion of committing eight murders is believed to have gone on his killing frenzy in the space of a single day lasting from noon to night.
June 3: A woman was arrested on suspicion of setting fire to the four-year-old child of her neighbor in the central Anatolian city of Konya.