Bus Drivers Qualify for Danger Pay

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Sözcü Newspaper, 30 October 2018)


Enraged hubby, left, goes after bus driver Güner.

In Antalya, bus driver Erkan Güner (45) picked up a
foreign female passenger on Saturday, together with her
school-age child.  The woman paid her own fare but
declined to pay for her child.  Güner advised the woman
that she had to pay the child's fare, as well, but she didn't
have enough money on her fare card.  In the end, the
woman and the child got off the bus but she photographed
the bus and told her husband about the incident.

A few minutes later, Güner's bus was cut off by a car
in which the woman was riding.  The driver of the car,
the woman's irate husband S.C., got out and then punched
Güner, breaking his nose.  The fight continued on the
street, where passers-by broke it up, hurling insults at
the woman and her husband.  Bus driver Güner went to
the hospital, got a report and then filed a complaint
against S.C.



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türkçe links to original Turkish article

(HaberTürk Newspaper, 30 October 2018)


Attacker in an undated photo.

In Çorum, a passenger's attack on a bus driver with an
umbrella was recorded on the bus's security camera.
Driver İlhan Aybulut got into an argument about a
particular bus stop with the passenger, who then hit
Aybulut with his umbrella.

Driver Aybulut explained that "These kinds of incidents
are common in the Akkent neighborhood of Çorum.
Another driver was stabbed here in the past months. 
Officials here have to take measures.  In this case,
the passenger said 'why didn't you stop at that stop?'
Then he hit me in the hand and the face with his
umbrella.  I tried to defend myself and called the police,
too."