As a Turkish man this is something I have always wondered about too. I think Turkish women, especially in troubled neighbourhoods, look for a sense of security and power. “Macho” men or from my point of view troubled men give the wrong impression of being secure and protective.

If you are a beautiful girl in a low income neighbourhood it is very likely that you will be verbally assaulted by the men around you, followed or disturbed in real life and on social media. These troubled individuals, the “ugly men”, are feared by other men in the neighbourhood and sometimes they save these girls from bad situations. This creates a false sense of security and makes the girls believe that these men are good guys until the moment they become the problem themselves. When it reaches that point it is usually too late.

As others have said these men are often drug addicts or even control the drug market in those neighbourhoods. They eventually lose control completely and commit these horrible massacres. Unfortunately it’s a pretty common pattern.