Unique People Edition

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(HaberTürk Newspaper, 4 September 2017)


                        Latin scholars take note.

Osman Gökmen (38) works at the human relations department of
the Bodrum Municipal Culture and Social Affairs Directorate and
he is a professional diver, as well.  When Gökmen was 16 he was
examined by a doctor who found that all of Gökmen's internal
organs are on the 'wrong' side.

So, as a precaution, Gökmen has had a tatoo put on his chest that
reads "situs inversus totalis" to alert anyone who might ever need
to treat him.  Gökmen explained that "when they said that I should
have a bracelet or some other thing to alert doctors that my internal
organs are reversed, I decided to have the tatoo done as the solution."


                              Osman & Son


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türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Milliyet Newspaper, 3 September 2017)


     Next time you complain about a hangnail...

Erdal Yalçın (42) was only 2 when meningitis left him 98% paralyzed.
But despite never having gone to school Yalçın has written his 16th
book (!).  Yalçın can only use his right thumb to write his books, which
he sells himself at book fairs and amid city crowds.  Next, Yalçın
will attend the Anatolia University Open Education program. In
addition to writing, Yalçın, from Diyarbakır, also does oil paintings.



         Talk about 'gettin' it done'!