Harun

Kocatepe Mosque

We've been watching Behzat Ç., a Turkish detective series on Netflix. Every episode they have a murder, sometimes several, to solve, and some social issue is often illustrated, all fairly typical for TV series about homicide detectives. This show has a different feel than Law & Order. Basically we have a crew of four guys running around Ankara collaring killers. They have a support crew of three back in the office, but that's it. There are a couple hundred murders a year in Ankara and these guys handle them all, and that's all they do, day after day, year after year. If there are no murders to solve, they hang out together drinking beer. Naturally, Behzat, being the Captain of this crew, gets crossways with the higher ups on a regular basis, but because he has such a phenomenal success rate in solving cases, intermediaries get him excused.

Behzat has his style, his own modus operandi. It's not very sophisticated, it's more like 'grab the bull by the horns' confrontational style, but when you realize that he's been dealing with killers for 20 years, you can see his point. Most murders are committed by people who just lose their shit, and getting slapped around a bit might get them to realize just how the deep the doo-doo they are standing in is.

Behzat and his crew are basically garbage men. They cruise around the city picking up the human refuse and carting it off to the pokey. It's not a glamorous job, but it needs to be done, and somebody needs to do it. It's not a huge job, so this small crew is all the city needs.

Harun is Behzat's sidekick. He is a big lumbering oaf. At first I thought he was just young and inexperienced, but as the series winds along I've come to realize he really isn't too bright, but he has found his niche with the murder crew. He interrogation technique is crude (he basically models Behzat), lots of yelling and cursing, but he gets results, and that's what counts.