TEARS AS FAMILY FOUND DEAD AT AN APARTMENT
The police in Istanbul on
Friday discovered the bodies of two parents and their 6-year-old child inside
an apartment in a suspected case of murder-suicide by cyanide, authorities
said.
Bulent Kerimoglu, the
mayor of Istanbul’s Bakirkoy neighbourhood said, “It appears that the father
poisoned the family with cyanide.
“He was suffering from a severe economic crisis, trapped in serious debt since a very long time.”
Kerimoglu added that forensic
experts were investigating the exact cause of the deaths.
Reports say the father, a
jewellery dealer in Istanbul’s Bakirkoy district, was suffering from
“depression” due to “an excessive amount of debt following some informal online
business transactions,” the Istanbul chief public prosecutor’s office said.
This is the third case of
suicide since last week over alleged financial difficulties.
On Saturday, a family of
four, including parents and two children, were killed in cyanide poisoning in
Antalya.
The father had left behind
a note explaining that he had been having financial problems.
On Nov. 6, two sisters and
two brothers were found dead in their Istanbul apartment after cyanide
poisoning.
The siblings suffered from
financial problems. Turkey has an ailing
economy, high public indebtedness and jobless rates, among other issues.
Nearly 1 million people
lost their jobs between August this year and the same month of 2018, the
Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) said on Friday.
More than 70 per cent of
the population had outstanding debts in 2018, according to TurkStat.
On Wednesday, Turkey’s
media watchdog, RTUK, warned broadcasters against encouraging suicides,
criticising some reports of “normalising” and “dramatising” such cases.
The watchdog vowed
measures against content including “violence”.
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