Man kills wife after she refuses to dance in Turkey’s southeast

GAZİANTEP

A man in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep has killed his wife at home after she refused his request to dance. 

According to Demirören News Agency, the 24-year-old man, identified as Sezer S., was drunk when he arrived at his home in the Çıksorut neighborhood late Nov. 12.

The intoxicated man started to play loud music and asked his wife to dance. When the woman refused, the report said, the man took his shotgun and killed his wife in front of their two children, who are four and five years old.

The ex-convict, who fled the scene, was still being sought by the police on Nov. 13.