Bums Are Dressed Up to Get Bank Credit

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(HaberTürk Newspaper, 31 March 2018)


        Dressing down for the perp walk.

Police in Adana looked into a fraud complaint from a bank and determined
that 3 million TL (about $700,000) had been withdrawn from the bank as
credit but never repaid.  Further investigation revealed that bank official
Hakan I. had approved the credit for the 105 individuals who withdrew the
credits.  After surveilling Hakan İ., police found that he had a gang of 12,
two of them women, who arranged for the credit withdrawals with fake
documents.

Teacher Savaş E. was  identified by police as a gang member but he died
last year.  Active gang members were identified as Kenan K., Arif Ö.,
Derya A. and Nesrin C. and it turned out that these suspects had enlisted
beggars, drug addicts and thieves to withdraw credit from the bank. (!) 
Prior to sending their charges to the bank, the suspects dressed them in
suits and ties and then Hakan İ. approved their credit applications.  (!)

Police rounded up the suspects in Adana and Hatay.  The gang gave its
"representatives" 40% of the credit they withdrew from the bank. 


Waiting for his Brooks Brothers suit and a trip to the bank.

Road Warriors Callenge Road, Road Wins

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 31 March 2018)


The road always has a few tricks up its sleeve in these
competitions...

A 5-member Iranian family returning at night from a Nevruz vacation in
Trabzon, plunged 8 meters into a giant road construction hole on the the
Gümüşhane-Bayburt highway.  Subsequently, a minibus fell into the hole,
as well.  In all, 8 people lost their lives and 4 were injured in the two
accidents. 

Erol Emir, a bus driver who plies the same route each day between Trabzon
and Erzurum, observed that "work started here 5 days ago and they restricted
travel to one lane but they put the warning sign only 10 meters in front of the
hole. These accidents happened at night but even during the day there was a
great risk of falling into the hole."

Another  claim made in connection with the incidents is that
there was only a small pile of sand and dirt 50 meters ahead of the hole
to give any warning at all and that the official warning signs were, in fact,
put there after the accidents occurred. (!)



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(HaberTürk Newspaper, 31 March 2018)


...for instance, there's the moving lamppost...

A minibus carrying Afghani, Pakistani and Iranian illegal migrants
from the Iranian border into Turkey went out of control on the Iğdır-
Kars highway and hit a lamppost.  Some of the passengers were
thrown onto the roadway with the impact, which caused the vechile
to burst into flames.  Then, another minibus transporting illegal migrants
hit the people on the roadway.  17 individuals died and 36 were injured
in the calamity.

The driver of the second minibus, Mehmet K., tried to flee but was
captured by police.  There were more than 50 people in the 14-person
capacity minibus, which had been barred from traffic by a court in
2015 for multiple violations. 



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türkçe links to original Turkish article

(HaberTürk Newspaper, 31 March 2018)


...and the always tiresome oncoming traffic.

In Kocasinan, Kayseri, on 25 March a car driven by Mustafa Üzüm
was sideswiped by a car zig-zagging at high speed.  As a result,
Üzüm crossed over into oncoming traffic and hit an ambulance.
The accident claimed the lives of  Mustafa Üzüm (29), Soner Üzüm (29),
Mehmet (36), his wife Zehra (29) and children Safiye Nur (6) and
Hamza (8). 


Reached for comment in Georgia, Adnan Ö. said "What?".


            Adnan Ö.'s weapon of choice.

Kayseri police found the zig-zagger's damaged white luxury sportscar
in a tea garden near the scene of the accident on 27 March.  The car's
owner, Adnan Ö. of Kayseri, the married father of 3 children, crossed
the Turkey-Georgia border at the Sarp border crossing 30 hours after
the incident.  Adnan Ö. has been charged with "causing the death of
more than one person through negligence." and an international
warrant for his arrest has been sent to Georgian officials. 


Kayseri is in central Turkey. Adnan Ö. fled to Georgia, upper right.