User:SukunWaShadda/Abdullah Palaz

Abdullah Palaz (1923-1991) was a Turkish serial killer. He was called "the monster of Antep" (Antep Canavarı) or "Uncle Abdullah" (Abdullah Dayı).

Biography
At the age of 12, Abdullah Palaz killed two of his uncle's hired assassins with an ax. In total he is said to have killed 43 people, almost all of them prison inmates. Palaz spent 48 years of his life in 38 prisons. In a list published by the daily newspaper Sabah about the most famous Kabadayı (e.g. bullies), Palaz is quoted as saying that he had been sentenced to death four times and to 740 years in prison.

In the Bursa detention center, Palaz became friends with the poet Nâzım Hikmet and was allowed to sit in the same large cell with Hikmet under the promise not to commit violent crimes. The extraordinary friendship with Nazım Hikmet began with the fact that after his transfer to Bursa, Palaz was locked in the sewers as punishment and Nazım Hikmet provided him with clean water. During the time that they both spent together in the dungeon, Palaz did not commit any violent acts.

Palaz died in a hospital in Ankara barely two months after his release from prison.