31 Ağustos 2018 Cuma

Flight Ticket Didn't Include Flight


türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Vatan Newspaper, 31 August 2018)

İşlemleri yetiştirilmedi, diye 24 yolcu uçağa bindirilmedi
Personnel shortage left them on the tarmac in Sivas.

earthbound stranding See recent TNT report about a similar 
stranding on the Diyarbakır-Sivarek bus route.

Passengers with tickets for a 0820 flight to Sabiha Gökçen Airport in 
Istanbul began to wait on line at Sivas Nuri Demirağ Airport.  But
since there were only two people working at the airline counter the
line didn't move, so 24 passengers could not be processed in time for
the flight's departure.

şoför klimayı aç diyen yolcuları diyarbakır siverek ile ilgili görsel sonucu
Bus driver's fit of pique left them on the roadside in Siverek.

The aircraft took off without the 24 stranded passengers, some of
whom had connections for onward flights in Istanbul.  While some
of the stranded passengers went to the bus terminal to catch buses
to Istanbul, others had to get tickets for flights the following day.
For example, Ahmet Akgül (30) had a connection to France that
he missed.  Airline company officials made no announcement
regarding the situation.


sivas istanbul haritası ile ilgili görsel sonucu






'Chobani' Yogurt King's Ex-Wife Kidnapped in West Palm Beach


türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Vatan Newspaper, 31 August 2018)

ayşe giray mustafa gençoğlanoğlu ile ilgili görsel sonucu
Never a dull moment in the exciting world of yogurt.

In West Palm Beach, Florida, on the morning of 27 August, Mustafa
Gençoğlanoğlu (45) was painting the walls in the home of Ayşe Giray
(59), the ex-wife of Hamdi Ulukaya, the famous owner and founder
of the yogurt company 'Chobani'.  After finishing his work, Giray
asked Gençoğlanoğlu to drop her at the train station, at which point
Gençoğlanoğlu fired 5-6 shots from a stun gun at Giray, disabling
her. (!)

Gençoğlanoğlu took Giray to a home rented by his partner-in-crime
Murat Ekdi (38), the son of a tribal leader in Siirt province, Turkey,
who had feld to the USA.  When Giray awoke the two suspects put
a gun which had been used to shoot three people into Giray's hand
(evidently to get her fingerprints on it as an incriminating threat). 
Next, the suspects demanded $4 million from Giray, who said she
could only give them $2.5 million.

The three then went to Giray's bank, with Giray entering and the
other two remaining outside.  Giray explained what was happening
to the bank teller and bank officials quickly put her into a safe room,
notifying the police, as well.  When the suspects saw that Giray
had been moved from the teller's window they tried to escape. Police
nabbed the suspects and found the stun-gun, black gloves and a
mask in the car.  Gençoğlanoğlu and Ekdi were taken to jail.

ayşe giray mustafa gençoğlanoğlu ile ilgili görsel sonucu
        The Yogurt King has moved on...

Ayşe Giray is a pediatrician and is divorced from Ulukaya, who
immigrated to the USA from Tunceli, Turkey, and founded
America's most popular yogurt brand 'Çhobani'.  Giray is said
to have received $1 billion from Ulukaya in the divorce
settlement.  Ulukaya married his current wife Louise, the founder
and  owner of 'Food Dreams Foundation', in January and the
couple celebrated the marriage in Istanbul on 26 August with
Ulukaya's Turkish friends and relatives.

west palm beach map ile ilgili görsel sonucu


TNT History Archives: Tasmanian Devil's Fantastic Voyage (1833-1840)

//Ed. Note: TNT has come upon a very good book: 'The Fatal 
Shore', by Robert Hughes, about the 'transportation' of the
English and Irish 'criminal classes' to Australia that began in 
1788.

Herewith the fantastic voyage of James Porter, who absconded
from the penal colony at Macquarie Harbor on the west coast
of today's Tasmania (then Van Diemen's Land) in 1833 (pp 216-
218 in the book).//

macquarie harbour ile ilgili görsel sonucu

"James Porter, a twenty-six-year-old Londoner helped his convict
companions, ex-sailors among them, to hijack the brig Frederick
from the slipway where they had built her for the government at
Macquarie Harbor in 1833, just as the settlement was being
abandoned.  This caused much embarrassment, not least because
the vessel had been named after one of Lieutenant-Governor
Arthur's seven sons.

macquarie harbour ile ilgili görsel sonucu
 Penal colony at Macquarie Harbor, circa 1830.

They cast the guards and crew ashore (all survived) and with
remarkable skill and courage sailed clear across the Pacific to the
coast of Chile, where they abandoned her to sink and took to the
longboat.  Reaching Valdivia, they came before its Chilean governor,
who assumed that they were pirates, not innocent shipwrecked sailors,
and promised to shoot them.  Porter saved their skins with a stirring
speech (as recorded years later by himself):

'Avast there! We as sailors shipwrecked and in distress expected
when we made thisport to have been treated in a Christian-like 
manner, not as though we were dogs!Is this the way you would
have treated us in 1818 when the British Tars were fighting for 
your independence, and bleeding in your cause against the old
Spaniards?  If we were pirates do you suppose we should be so
weak as to cringe to your tyranny? Never! I also wish you to 
understand that if we are shot England will know of it and will
be revenged...Should you put your threat into execution we will
teach you Patriots how to die.'

australia chile map ile ilgili görsel sonucu
The distance between Australia and Chile is about 7,000 miles.

Impressed by this magnificent bluff, the governor let them stay
unmolested and asked his superiors in Santiago to issue them
with residence permits.  Porter and his companions now settled
down to a picaresque life among the ladies and knife-wielders
in Chile.

valdivia chile map ile ilgili görsel sonucu

But the governor was replaced soon afterward, and his successor-
suspicious that Porter and his shipmates were, in fact, escaped
convicts - alerted a passing British frigate, HMS Blond. Thus
they were taken again, first back to England, and then on a second
transport ship to Van Diemen's Land.  On the weary voyage
south, Porter was falsely denounced as a mutineer by two of
his former shipmates, Charles Lyon and William Cheshire, who
hoped to curry favor with the captain and escape hanging for
piracy when, as seemed inevitable, they were recognized in
Hobart:

'Knowing my innocence I stood nearly petrified.  I was seized
by the soldiers and seamen, lashed to a grating (and to that
degree until the blood oozed from the parts where the lashings
went round different parts of my person) and a lump of a black
fellow flogged me across the lines and every other part of my
body until my head sank on my breast.  As for the quantity of
the lashes I cannot say, for I would not give them the satisfaction
ot scringe to it, until nature gave way through exhaustion.'

australia flogging 1830 ile ilgili görsel sonucu
          The 'lash' being administered.

Then he and his mate William Shires were chained below, bleeding
and infected, hands manacled behind their backs, in a steaming
rat's-hole and were given no more than quarter-rations of water
and food for three weeks, until they presented "the appearance of
anatomies (i.e. skeletons) more than living beings."

van diemen's land map ile ilgili görsel sonucu
Macquarie Harbor is the large inlet in the middle
of the map at left, on Van Diemen's Land/Tasmania's
west coast.

Somehow Porter survived the voyage and landed in Hobart in
March 1837, where he was instantly recognized as one of the
pirates of the Frederick.  He was tried and convicted of piracy,
despite his ingenious argument in defense: As the vessel had not
been formally commissioned by the government - 'it was canvas,
rope, boarding and trenails, put together shipwise -" yet it was
not a legal ship so the seizure might be theft, but not piracy.'

Luckily for Porter, 'the bloodthirsty former governor Arthur
had left Van Diemen's Land five months earlier' and had not
the colony been under the Government of the humane Sir
John Franklin, I should not now have been alive to have given
this small narrative.'  So Porter and Shires did not hang. They
ended up on Norfolk Island, where Porter was able to write
his memoirs under the kindly eye of Captain Alexander
Maconochie."

norfolk island map 1830 ile ilgili görsel sonucu
Norfolk Island is 1,000 miles east of mainland Australia.

//Ed. Note: Porter appeared again in Hughes's book, on 
page 504.  Under Captain Maconachie's relatively liberal 
administration of the Norfolk Island penal colony, Porter 
sang 'The Light Irishman' during celebrations for Queen 
Victoria's birthday, 25 May 1840.// 





30 Ağustos 2018 Perşembe

Cell Messages, Love Triangle, Murder


türkçe  links to original Turkish article

(Vatan Newspaper, 30 August 2018)

harun güler eskişehir serdar a tuğba ile ilgili görsel sonucu
Once-upon-a time happy couple and the deceased interloper.

The remarkable incident occurred at Eskişehir State Hospital.  Harun
Güler (31), who ran a canteen at another hospital, was slightly injured
in a motorcycle accident.  Serdar A., the husband of Güler's co-worker
Tuğba A. (27), coincidentally saw the mishap and went to help Güler.

As Güler was being taken to the hospital in an ambulance, Serdar A.
picked up Güler's cellphone, spilled during the accident, and thought
about calling Güler's relatives to inform them.  However, Serdar A.
noticed on the phone that Güler had been messaging with his wife
Tuğba A. (!)

Later, Serdar A. took Tuğba A. home and began beating her but she
got away through an open window.  Enraged, Serdar A. took a bread
knife from home and went to Eskişehir State Hospital.  There he
learned that Güler was in the X-ray room and he stabbed Güler ten
times, killing him.

eskişehir haritası ile ilgili görsel sonucu



'Wedding Party''s Migrating Minivan


türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 30 August 2018)

düğün arabasıyla göçmen kaçakçılığı ile ilgili görsel sonucu
"Do you take each other, to have and to hold, till death
do you part?"  - yes, back in the home country.

Human traffickers are continually updating their methods but their
most recent trick was uncovered by the Antalya Gendarmerie. At
a traffic checkpoint along the Antalya-Burdur highway a
Gendarmerie team thought that a decorated 'wedding' minibus looked
suspicious so the vehicle was stopped. But instead of a bride and
groom emerging from the minivan, 8 Afghans, 3 Pakistanis and their
Palestinian handler A.I.M. came out. (!)

male bride ile ilgili görsel sonucu
The 'bride' got a bit carried away with the ruse.

A search of the vehicle turned up 11 life jackets and two bags thought
to belong to the migrants.  A.I.M. was taken into custody and the 11
migrants were sent to the Turkish immigration station in Antalya.
A Gendarmerie spokesman explained to Hürriyet that "we spotted the
vehicle late at night and noticed that there was no convoy, as is usual
with wedding parties.  The driver knew Turkish and he claimed that
'we're returning from a wedding.'  We looked in the vehicle and saw
11 individuals and 11 brand-new, unopened life jackets. All the
passengers turned out to be foreigners.  A. I. M. claimed that he
didn't know the migrants, who had contacted him via WhatsApp for
transportation - but he didn't receive any money from them." (!)

antalya burdur haritası ile ilgili görsel sonucu