Meteor Falls in Kars? No, Russian ICBM

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(Milliyet Newspaper, 30 September 2017)


     Eat your heart out, Kim Jong-un.

The villagers in the Akyayla and Günindi pasture, near Karabağ village
in Kağızman district of Kars province, set out excitedly to find a meteor
that supposedly fell from the sky nearby.  It turned out, though that the
'meteor' was in fact a part of a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile
(!).

Braving cold and windy weather, the villagers searched high and low
for the 'meteor', which they had heard could bring a good price from
collectors.  Akyayla village chief Hamza Altay explained that "there
was a big noise after the evening prayer.  I thought it was a plane but
the villagers said it was a meteor.  The police called me and asked
whether a meteor had fallen. I told them I didn't see any such thing
but later it was rumored that a meteor had fallen towards Digor."

Ultimately, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that the object
that landed in Kağızman district resulted from a test of the RS-12M
Topol-type intercontinental ballistic missile.



                            Kars province

Seljuk Sultans' Bones Lost & Found

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(Milliyet Newspaper, 29 September 2017)


                  May they now rest in peace.

The construction of the historic Alaeddin Mosque in Konya began in
the time of Seljuk Sultan Rükneddin Mesud I and was opened to
worship by Sultan Alaeddin Keykubad I in 1221.  The tomb in the
garden of the mosque houses the remains of Sultans Mesud I,,
Kılıçarslan II, Rükneddin Süleyman II, Giyaseddin Keyhüsrev II,
Alaeddin Keykubat I, Gıyaseddin Keyhüsrev II, Kılıçarslan IV and
Gıyaseddin Keyhüsrev III.

In the 1960s during the restoration of the tomb, workers took out the
bones of the Sultans from their graves beneath their cases and put the
bones in bags.  Dogs entered through the airconditioning compartment,
though, and took off with some of the bones.  Miraculously (!), the
bones were found in the vicinity of Alaeddin Hill.


                    ...in happier days.


Another restoration of the mosque began in 2014 and the bones of
Sultan Kılıçarslan II and his son Gıyaseddin Keyhüsrev were identified,
based on their skulls.  The re-burial of the two Sultans took place on
28 July and was attended by Konya Governor Yakup Canbolat and
two AKP parliamentarians.


                  Anatolian Seljuk Empire

Firefighters Get Guidance From Homeowner

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(HaberTürk Newspaper, 28 September 2017)


                     "Oh, and do the dishes."

In Antalya, Kadriye Yay (45) began cooking in her home in the
Kızılarık neighborhood of Muratpaşa district.  After putting food on
the stove to cook, Kadriye hanım took the garbage out.  However,
she inadvertantly threw her house keys into the garbage and couldn't
find them again.

With the food cooking on the stove, Kadriye hanım called the fire
department, while she waited anxiously outside her home. When the
firefighters arrived they climbed a ladder to the balcony and received
the following instructions from Kadriye hanım: "Don't go in the house
with your shoes on!  Turn off the stove! Bring me my cigarettes!"

After entering the house and turning off the stove, the firefighter
brough Kadriye hanım her cigarettes.  Litghting up, Kadriye hanım
thanked the firefighters for their efforts on her behalf.

Intolerant Preacher Gets Jeans & Tweezers

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(Sözcü Newspaper, 27 September 2017)

mysogynist see this recent TNT report for more of this mentality


                            Special delivery.

CHP Parliamentarian Tur Yıldız Biçer has reacted to the remarks of
preacher İhsan Şenocak who railed against women wearing jeans and
plucking their eyebrows with tweezers in a mosque the other day.

Şenocak declared that "doesn't it just tear your heart up to see  your
daughter wearing jeans on the street and to school?  If an 18 year-old
girl who plucks her eyebrows goes to a university in that manner
and it doesn't tear you up then you'll go to hell on Judgement Day."

Biçer said that such remarks were unacceptable and she filed a
criminal complaint against Şenocak for 'hatred and segregation',
'insulting', 'inciting the public to malice and enmity' and 'violating
the constitution'. 

To emphasize her point, Biçer sent Şenocak a pair of women's jeans
and a tweezer by courier, saying "we won't tolerate those who bemoan
our girls wearing jeans but who remain silent when our children are
raped.  We denounce those that think like Şenocak, who would drag
us into darkness and blacken the future for our girls. Go ahead and
wear jeans girls if you want!"


         His own jeans are a bit too tight.

Ax Falls on Failed 'Rainmaker'

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(HaberTürk Newspaper, 26 September 2017)


Failed 'Rainmaker' Salum and superstitious ax murder Hayri A.

Hayri A. lives in a shack in the forest in Dudaklı village of Kestel district
in Bursa province.  Hayri A. went to the home of Engin Salum, a
'muskacı' (writer of charms), in the village and attacked the father of two
children with an ax, killing him.

After the murder, when Hayri A. returned to his shack that evening
he was apprehended by the Gendarmerie.  In his statement, Hayri A.
explained that he held Salum responsible for the lack of rainfall in
the village because Salum had written a 'muska' (charm) that was
supposed to bring rainfall (!).


                           Bursa province

Stacked Bus Migrants Eye World Record

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(Milliyet Newspaper, 25 September 2017)


Promised Guinness Book of World Records observers no-shows. 

In Sivas, 118 migrants who entered Turkey illegally were apprehended
on a bus. Traffic police stopped the bus, driven by Yaşar Kocabaş, on
the Sivas-Erzincan highway as it headed toward Istanbul and found 118
illegal migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Iran on the
54-person capacity bus (!).


Migrants rose to the challenge but for naught.

Bus driver Kocabaş was taken into custody, while the illegal migrants
were processed by the police and sent to the Sivas Internal Migration
Directorate to await deportation.



                     Sivas province

Challenge to 'Last Call' Ends Badly

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(Hürriyet English Daily News, 25 September 2017)


His hoped-for 'nightcap' proved costly for Vidkar Haladko.

A 17-year-old waiter working at a hotel stabbed a Belarussian
tourist to death in the touristic Marmaris district of the Aegean
province of Muğla late on Sept. 23, Doğan News Agency has 
reported.

The incident occurred after the 28-year-old Vidkar Haladko 
reportedly arrived with his wife back at his hotel in the Turunç
neighborhood of Marmaris after a night out. Haladko reportedly
went to the pool bar for a drink while his wife went back to 
their room.

The waiter at the pool bar, identified only by the initials M.S., 
was reportedly cleaning the bar after its closure and refused to
serve alcohol to the Belarussian tourist.


M.S.was NOT going to work overtime.

A brawl subsequently erupted between the two, during which 
M.S. stabbed Haladko with a knife taken from the bar.

Hotel officials called security forces to the scene and the tourist
was rushed to hospital. However, he died at the hospital due to
wounds sustained in his liver.

Gendarmerie teams detained M.S. after the incident and he 
was referred to court on Sept. 24.

An investigation into the incident is ongoing.


Turunç, quite a lovely town by the way, is south of Marmaris.