From Gizmodo, a terrible tale of technology, misunderstanding and revenge. Our story begins in Turkey, where Emine and Ramazan are in the process of separating. After deciding to split, they continue to hurl barbs at each other by text message – including one from Ramazan in which he accuses his wife thus:
You change the topic every time you run out of arguments.
Problem was, the whole meaning of the sentence hinged on Emine’s cellphone’s capacity to understand a special Turkish alphabet character called a ‘closed i’ – and it couldn’t, because of faulty localisation of the hardware. As a result, the message that Emine actually received read like this:
You change the topic every time they are fucking you.
At this point,
Emine then showed the message to her father, who—enraged—called Ramazan, accusing him of treating his daughter as a prostitute. Ramazan went to the family’s home to apologize, only to be greeted by the father, Emine, two sisters and a lot of very sharp knives.
Injured and bleeding, with a knife on his chest, Ramazan tried to escape. Emine was still trying to finish him on the door, but he managed to take the knife out of his chest and attacked back, wounding her. Ramazan finally escaped, and was caught by the police, but Emine bled to dead as the family waited for an ambulance to cross Ankara’s hellish traffic to reach their home. Confused by all the events, he later killed himself in jail.
Blimey.
