Second Collective Suicide in Turkey in a Week Highlights Crisis

[Petros Houhoulis]

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Second Collective Suicide in Turkey in a Week Highlights Crisis

By Taylan Bilgic

November 9, 2019, 2:06 PM GMT+2

• Eight people died in two separate suicide incidents in a week
  
• Inflation and unemployment has soared as economy set to shrink
  

An elderly woman sells packets of tissues on the roadside in Istanbul, Turkey.

Photographer: Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg

A family of four was found dead in southern Turkey in what appears to be the second collective suicide in a week amid growing economic hardship.
Police officers discovered the bodies of a man, his wife and two children in their home in Antalya, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday. The father left a note, saying he had been jobless for the past nine months and couldn’t go on, NTV reported on its website. The deaths may have been due to cyanide poisoning, the Cumhuriyet newspaper said.

The incident appears to be similar to a Nov. 5 collective suicide in Istanbul, when four adult siblings were found dead in their homes due to cyanide poisoning. The Anadolu Agency on Nov. 8 cited a friend of the deceased as saying that they were suffering from severe economic hardship.
The suicides follow more than a year of economic tumult amid a slide in the lira. Many companies have struggled to repay debt, while inflation and unemployment have soared. The economy is set to contract 0.5% this year according to a Bloomberg survey of economists, which would be the first annual contraction in a decade.
“It’s well-established that suicides increase during economic crisis periods,” Ilker Kucukparlak, a psychiatrist in Istanbul, said by phone.
The poverty threshold for a four-person household stands at 6,705 liras ($1,162) per month, according to a monthly survey by the Turk-Is labor confederation. That’s more than three times the monthly minimum wage of 2,020 liras. The official unemployment rate stands at 13.9%, corresponding to 4.6 million jobless in the nation of 82 million.
“I apologize from everyone, but there’s nothing else to do. We are ending our lives,” the father’s suicide note in Antalya read, NTV reported.

[Balthier]

Thanks, gazette boy.

[Petros Houhoulis]

Thanks, gazette boy.

You are welcome canine / orc / vile Carian slave.

[Balthier]

You are welcome canine / orc / vile Carian slave.

Just orc, others apply to you more. Howling hound.

[NiccMach]

Petros may use it as a insult. But, Turkish economy is seriously fucked up. I think nothing can change this trend, everything is so corrupted and people don't give a fuck about it, because of our culture saying " Bal tutan parmagini yalar." Which normalizes corruption internally.
If it goes like this, these kind of news induced by poverty will be more and more common just like Weimar Republic's or Great Depression suicide rates.

[Balthier]

Petros may use it as a insult. But, Turkish economy is seriously fucked up. I think nothing can change this trend, everything is so corrupted and people don't give a fuck about it, because of our culture saying " Bal tutan parmagini yalar." Which normalizes corruption internally.
If it goes like this, these kind of news induced by poverty will be more and more common just like Weimar Republic's or Great Depression suicide rates.

svihs, destroy the old to build the new.

[Marmara]

Government already solved this problem by adding new taxes to cyanide.

[NiccMach]

Government already solved this problem by adding new taxes to cyanide.

There are always cheaper ways to commit suicide. You can hire a car, if you don't have one, put a pipe inside car from exhaust and can get heavy sleeping pills. I'm sure there are some other cheap and painless ways.

[NiccMach]

svihs, destroy the old to build the new.

Umarım iç savaş çıkar da marksist, kürt milliyetçisi, feminist Kürdistan'ın için ölürsün.

[Dick]

There are always cheaper ways to commit suicide. You can hire a car, if you don't have one, put a pipe inside car from exhaust and can get heavy sleeping pills. I'm sure there are some other cheap and painless ways.

The problem with today's society, especially in the west, is chasing "Happiness" which is just a dopamine like emotional response. Happiness is result reliant. People will be let down frequently if "happiness" is what you are after. It's okay to be unpretentious but younger generations just don't understand this due to how society is nowadays. Joy on the other hand is not a choice or a response to a result and is unpredictable.