Turkish wedding photographer Onur Albayrak is being hailed as a hero this week after the photographer admitted to beating up a client when he learned that the man’s bride - to - be was only 15 years old.
Hurriyet Daily News reports that Albayrak had been hired to photograph the July 5th wedding at Turgut Özal Nature Park in the eastern Turkish province of Malatya. On the day of, when he noticed that the bride - to - be didn’t look like an adult, he asked the groom her age and learned that she was only 15.
“The groom had come to my studio some two weeks ago and was alone, ” Albayrak tells the Daily News. “I saw the bride for the first time at the wedding. She’s a child, and I felt her fear because she was trembling. ”
Albayrak then reportedly refused to continue as the wedding photographer and attempted to stop the wedding.