[Charles Henrickson]

From the Turkish Association of Psychopharmacology website:

President-elect:

Professor Ismail AK, M.D. Head, Department of Psychiatry, KTU School of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey

Ismail AK is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Head, Department of Psychiatry, KTU School of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey

He is an experienced on clinical psychopharmacology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.

[MHGinTN]

Thank you for posting those references. This is indeed a bizarre case and getting more bizarre with each day, so far.

[Charles Henrickson]

Dr. Ismail Ak is apparently one of the world's leading experts on the psychiatry of antisocial and suicidal behavior, psychotic and bipolar disorders, psychoparmacological therapy, etc.

The young man had been noticed to be disturbed and had been referred to counseling. Dr. Ismail Ak is an expert and author in the particular field most directly related to the guy's disorder.

So it's possible that the writing on the guy's arm said, ISMAIL AK, and the K was written in a way that people *thought* it said, ISMAIL AX. That seems more likely to me than a connection to Moby Dick or to Islamic terrorism.

(See my other posts on this line of inquiry: 210, 214, 225)