Another attack on a taxi driver in İzmir! Passenger stabs driver with scissors after being told 'I'm off duty!'
In İzmir's Konak district, a taxi driver who told a passenger who hailed him that he was "off duty" was stabbed in the back with scissors during an altercation that broke out as he was leaving a tea house to head home for a meal. The driver, left covered in blood after the scissors were plunged into his back, filed a complaint against the individual following his medical treatment.
İHA
The incident occurred yesterday evening on Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa Street in the Konak district of İzmir. According to allegations, the taxi driver, who had been behind the wheel since the morning hours, Serkan Aksakallı (37), responded to a passenger who hailed him while he was stopped in front of a coffee house, saying "I'm off duty" . Upon leaving the tea house, Aksakallı encountered Mehmet D. (32), and got into an argument with the individual after hearing him use profanity. During the ensuing scuffle, the suspect plunged the scissors he was holding into taxi driver Serkan Aksakallıstabbed into his back.
SUSPECT TAKEN INTO CUSTODY
While Aksakallı was left covered in blood, citizens in the vicinity intervened. Upon notification, police and 112 Emergency Health teams were dispatched to the scene. Aksakallı was taken into an ambulance and transported to the Social Sciences University Tepecik Training and Research Hospital, while the suspect, Mehmet D., was taken into custody by the police. After receiving treatment at the hospital and being discharged, Aksakallı went to the Boğaziçi Martyr İsmail Yörümez Police Station and filed a complaint against Mehmet D.
“I PINNED HIM TO THE GROUND, THAT’S WHEN HE STUCK THE SCISSORS IN MY BACK”
Describing the moments he experienced, Aksakallı said, “While I was standing in front of the tea house, a citizen hailed me and asked, ‘Are you free?’ I told him I had closed my vehicle, and then I went inside. I was going to drink a cup of tea and go home. I start work at 08:00 in the morning and close my car around 02:30 at night. At that moment, since my blood pressure had dropped a bit, I was heading home to eat. As I was about to go home, I saw the person again. He started cursing at me. I asked him, ‘Brother, are you cursing at me?’ He started talking abusively while holding scissors in his hand. I asked him why he was doing this. I pinned him to the ground, and that’s when he stuck the scissors into my back.” he said.
“THEY KILLED A TAXI DRIVER BROTHER OF OURS, A COLLEAGUE, RECENTLY. TODAY, IT WAS OUR TURN”
"We are calling on our government to take measures regarding this issue," said Aksakallı, "Everyone is saddened, we are saddened. Recently, they killed a fellow taxi driver, a colleague of ours. Today, it was our turn. We are not doing any harm to anyone. We are providing a service. The man had scissors, a razor, and a blade on him. I don't understand what kind of person this is. During my treatment, the doctor said, 'If it had gone in 2 cm deeper, we would have had to put you in intensive care; you were saved by a hair's breadth.' This is intentional injury. It is attempted murder." he stated.