For getting married without his approval, a father has live-streamed his suicide on Facebook.
The video showed the father calling out his family for going through with a wedding he did not approve of.
The man Ayhan Uzun, from Kayseri, central Turkey, held a handgun to his head and was heard saying;
He said: “I am livestreaming tonight, and it is my will, I do not want the ones who put me in this position to attend my funeral.”
“On my daughter’s happiest day (her engagement), they called me and said to me: ‘Father come have a treat’. Nobody asked about me. Nobody treated me like a man. My father-in-law took my place and without having a right he approved my daughter’s wedding. Nobody said this girl’s father is alive. Though I would have waited for my daughter and family to say to me: ‘Come father, be with us’.
He added: “My wife called me and she told me. I said to her why didn’t you come to tell me, and she said: ‘We cannot make a personal visit to you…’ Maybe some of you will call this a show. I do not want anybody to go through this thing that I am going through. A little later I will put an end to my life with the gun I am holding in my hands.”
Friends and family sent comments during the livestream not to kill himself but he did not take note of the pleas:
“Goodbye, I am leaving, take good care of yourselves,” The 54-year-old says at the end of the video then pulls the trigger on the count of three.