Nobody knows what 27-year-old Selahattin Cirit was thinking when he was shot in the leg in the Ýstanbul neighborhood of Okmeydaný last Wednesday. He was originally from Bingöl and working as a motorbike courier in a market in Okmeydaný. Was Cirit aware of the fact that some people in the neighborhood had come to believe he was a child molester? 

Nobody knows what the real motive of the furious crowd was, although sociologist Tanýl Bora and psychiatrist Professor Selçuk Candansayar have some educated guesses. Documentation from the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TÝHV) about the country’s rapidly evolving culture of lynching can give some clues, too. Despite police questioning, Okmeydaný residents continue to stay silent, though many of them witnessed what happened. Cirit cannot provide any information, either. After he fell from his motorcycle due to the wound in his leg, he was beaten to death by a group of approximately 50 people. His father says there was not a single bone in his son’s body that was not broken.

Nobody knows what the real motive of the furious crowd was, although sociologist Tanýl Bora and psychiatrist Professor Selçuk Candansayar have some educated guesses. Documentation from the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TÝHV) about the country’s rapidly evolving culture of lynching can give some clues, too. Despite police questioning, Okmeydaný residents continue to stay silent, though many of them witnessed what happened. Cirit cannot provide any information, either. After he fell from his motorcycle due to the wound in his leg, he was beaten to death by a group of approximately 50 people. His father says there was not a single bone in his son’s body that was not broken.

According to media reports, a student in Okmeydaný told her mother that someone with a motorcycle had harassed her. Suddenly a rumor about Cirit started to circulate in the neighborhood. Even today it is not known whether this rumor had any relation to reality, but it was enough to stir up the anger that led to Cirit’s murder. 

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Especially sentences in the article like these: ´a tendency toward lynching against Kurds is already strong in Turkish society´ and ´Male adolescents, if they are unable to cope with their strong emotions, which is the case in Turkey´ I find very alarming. What is wrong, it´s not the 19th century anymore!

barbarity!

only thing i can say!

barbarians, even in istanbul!

This is a dreadful story, but the title leads me to believe I am going to read about the lynching  (Hanging) of several people at a given time, similar to Iran with homosexuals.  This headline gives this story a much more sensationalistic begining. 

This is not a lynching but a mob attack, so why have they called it a mass lynching?

 its amazing how often you expose your own ignorance.

in iran they have religous system of justice where an imam or bunch imams issue the vedict and the mob (mass idiots) goes and kills the so "criminals" by hanging or stoning or even mutulating. so everything is carried out according to the system and "laws".

in this case, there was no a procedure, but suspicions and the mass went out to carry out their own street justice.

 more and more you prove how heartless you are. you didnt comment on how barbaric it was, but showed your concern about two very alike incidents and how the article´s title doesnt fit your ignorance.

 Thank you for your kind comments, but you have no idea how I feel about this therefore you will remain ignorant.

 I like the kind way you point out my failings.

 i judge by what you wrote not by your feelings you have hidden into your shoes.

since you dont show your concern about the victim but on articles title, i keep stating that you are HEARTLESS.

 I get the picture, I am HEARTLESS............................. and you are the most compassionate person on this site

Who is the most compassionate?  The one who ignores such things for fear of causing offence, or the one who challenges such things regardless of causing offence?