Chance Arrest Foils Serbian Gang's Big Heist

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Milliyet Newspaper, 28 February 2018)

valet terror see recent TNT reporting on this subject.


Problem began when 'Oceans Eleven' movies were 
dubbed into Serbian.

In Kadıköy, Istanbul, police began to check on incidents that have
occurred recently involving valets who park cars for restaurants in
the Caddeboston neighborhood.  In this regard, police raided an
unlicensed parking lot, found an automatic weapon and took
manager Hakan K. into custody. 

Hakan K. told police that the weapon belonged to 4 Serbians
living in a house Hakan K. rented to them on a per-day basis.
Police then tracked down Daniel Javovic in a hotel in Kadıköy
and Bojan Viloviç, Aleksander Durivoç, Milos Vujaviç and
Peter Sander on the shorefront in Kadıköy, seizing a Thompson
automatic weapon, two car ignition sockets, sledgehammer and
an electronic jammer.

Police determined that the Serbian gang was planning a big
heist, using the jammer to foil any alarms, spray paint to
black out video cameras and the sledgehammer and an iron-
cutting saw to access the loot.  In the event of a clash with
police, the gang was prepared to use its Thompson automatic
weapon, which they brought into Turkey from abroad.


              Kadıköy district of Istanbul.

Escalator Collapse Swallows Metro Customer

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Milliyet Newspaper, 28 February 2018)


Admit it - we all have a preternatural fear of this each
time we board...

At the Istanbul Metro's İTÜ Ayazağa station yesterday evening
at around 17:30, customer Mehmet Ali Erik fell through the
escalator steps and was rescued after an hour's effort by
firefighters. 

City officials issued the following statement in connection
with the incident: "Despite the warning sign placed in front of
the escalator (!), a citizen entered the escalator and fell through
because the underpinning of the stair had been removed for
the ongoing repairs.  Firefighters were able to extract the citizen
from the place where he got stuck.  The citizen suffered a broken
left arm and cuts and scratches on his other arm and legs."


...and when you want it to happen it never does!

Minaret Older and 'Leaner' Than Pisa

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Milliyet Newspaper, 27 February 2018)


                Historical 'forward-leaners'.


previous  TNT first reported on the leaning minaret in 2015.

In the historic village of Harput in Elazığ province, the Ulu
Mosque and its minaret, which were built by Artuklu ruler
Fahrettin Karaaslan between 1156-1157, are being restored.
The minaret's lean is more dramatic than the Leaning Tower
of Pisa, which was built 16 years later in 1173.

Elazığ official and art expert Kadir Atıcı explained that
"the Tower of Pisa leans 3.2 degrees, whereas the Ulu Mosque's
minaret leans 7.2 degrees.  The minaret's bricks moved around
and there has been damage inflicted by pigeons so restoration
of the interior of the minaret began in 2017.  We seen the
architecture of the Great Selçuks in the Harput Ulu Mosque."


        Harput is just northeast of Elazığ city.

CSI Trabzon: Ex-Wife and Boyfriend Prime Suspects

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(HaberTürk Newspaper, 27 February 2018)


Victim, kidnap car, boyfriend Ali Ö., ex-wife İlknur P.

Mehmet Tüysüz of Trabzon, has not been heard from since he
left his house on 28 September 2017.  The last person he spoke
with was cousin Adnan Tüysüz, to whom he said he would be
meeting with someone coming from Rize in Çömlekçi village
in Trabzon. Tüysüz's family told police that they suspect Tüysüz's
ex-wife and her boyfriend of foul play.

Police reviewed video footage from Çömlekçi village and
determined that Tüysüz had been kidnapped and taken away
in a car, which police later found far away in İzmit.  The blood
stains discovered in the car were a match for samples given to
police by Tüysüz's parents. 

Tüysüz's last known location was Lake Sera, in Trabzon, where
he had been taken, but police could not find his body at any of
the 7-8 spots they dug up.  Before he disappeared, Tüysüz told
the Gendarmerie "if something happens to me, my ex-wife's
boyfriend will be the one to blame." 

Tüysüz had wanted to take custody of his daughter because he
felt that the boyfriend, Ali Ö., was a bad influence and this caused
friction between the parties concerned.  Consequently, police took
Ali Ö., who is wanted for a number of crimes, into custody in
Izmir, and brought him to Izmit, while ex-wife İlknur P. was
arrested in Trabzon.  Both suspects denied charges of murder
and inciting murder.  The person who drove the car in which
Tüysüz was kidnapped is being sought by police.

Travelling Cattle Class

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(HaberTürk Newspaper, 26 February 2018)


  Economy-Plus (extra leg room) not available...

In Erzurum, police stopped a vehicle used for inter-city
livestock transport during a night traffic stop and heard
voices coming from inside.  When the tarp was lifted
police found 151 illegal Afghan immigrants inside the
truck, which had been outfitted with two wooden 'floors'
to accommodate the passengers.

Worst Dad of the Year Contestant Hard to Beat

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(HaberTürk Newspaper, 26 February 2018)


Raed Saed Abdullah, thinking about his acceptance speech.

Iraqi Raed Saed Abdullah, the father of four, was charged with
fraud in Baghdad so he fled with his children - A.S. (13), M.S. (12),
R.S. (10) and H.S. (8), along with his father, to Trabzon in April
2017 by illegal means.  Abdullah rented a home in Trabzon's
Kemerkaya neighborhood and made his children beg to support
him.  He also told the children that their mother had been killed in
the war in Iraq.

The mother, Rua Alaa Mohammed, still very much alive, though,
came to Turkey twice looking for her children, but returned to
Iraq without finding them.  On 22 January, son M.S. told police
that Abdullah beat him, accusing him of hiding money earned from
begging that Abdullah wanted for alcohol.  Police took Abdullah
into custody and determined that the mother Abdullah said was
'dead' was alive in Iraq.  She was contacted by police and came
to Trabzon last week.


                    Fatherless...and loving it!

Abdullah hid the childrens' passports to prevent them from leaving
him but police arranged for Turkish immigration authorities to
give the children documents that would allow them to return to
Iraq, which they did by bus with their mother.  Abdullah's request
for asylum in Turkey was rejected and he was expelled from the
country.




Baghdad, lower right. Trabzon, on eastern Black Sea 
coast.

Killing Cousins

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(HaberTürk Newspaper, 25 February 2018)


It's just a mess...well, it'll have to do until the real 
mess gets here...

In Çeltikdere village of Seben district, Bolu province, a fight
erupted between cousins over a land dispute and O.B. shot dead
4 persons, seriously wounding 5 others.  The incident occurred
at 16:00 yesterday when O.B.got into an argument with his cousin
Ayhan Büyüktopaç about land.

O.B. fired his rifle, killing Ayhan, his wife Emine, son Taşkın
and sister Zekiye.  Ayhan's nephew Soner and his father Mehmet
were wounded, as were Onur, Mustafa and Hatice Büyüktopaç,
all of whom have life-threatening injuries.  After the massacre,
O.B. surrendered to the Gendarmerie.  He, too, had been injured
by blows from bats and sticks.