What Happens in Tekirdağ...Tragic Tales of Two Bus Drivers

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 9 January 2019)


                                12 years later, "Gotcha!"

In 2006, Hasan Baş, who owned his own passenger bus and
lived in Saray district of Tekirdağ province, disappeared 3
months after marrying Gülnazik Baş (55).  At the time, Gülnazik
hanım went to the police and filed a missing-persons report about
Hasan bey, who was 54-years-old then.

No trace of Hasan bey could be found so in 2014 a court issued
a 'gaiplik' decision (a declaring a missing person legally presumed
dead), and the case was put on the shelf.  However, the Tekirdağ
police decided to take another look, tasking a 5-person team to
scrutinize the case.  After months of research, the team determined
that after his death, Gülnazik hanım sold Hasan bey's bus and house
and began living with her lover Metin Motor (!).

Gülnazik hanım's step-son Murat Karadeniz declared that they
had killed Hasan bey in order to get his retirement pay, bus and
house.  As a result, Gülnazik hanım, her daughter Elif Yanar,
Murat Karadeniz, Metin Motor and relatives Gülsüm Sevgi and
Nuri Yıldız were all taken into custody.

The suspects confessed that they had strangled Hasan bey, put
his body in a bathtub for a day and then took the body to Silivri,
Istanbul, where they burned it.

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türkçe links to original Turkish article.

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 9 January 2019)


                       High-occupancy vehicular tragedy.

An accident occurred yesterday morning on the Tekirdağ-Hayrabolu
road near the village of Ortaca.  Citizens who noticed a car in the
stream there notified the Gendarmerie and the car, bearing plate nr.
22 UF 474 (registered in Edirne), was pulled from the water after
having flown off the Ortaca Bridge.

In the accident, driver Erkan Arslan (43), Buğra Barış Arslan (19),
Buğlem Arslan (5), Mustafa Öner (65), Ayşe Öner (67), Pınar
Aldemir (24), Seyit Abdullah Aldemir (5) and Emir Umeyr Aldemir
(1) all died.

Erkan Arslan drove a minibus for a living in Büyükşehsuvar village
in Edirne's Uzunköprü district.  His wife Zehra Arslan died of cancer
and was buried in Uzunköprü on Sunday.  Yesterday morning at
7 o'clock, Erkan Arslan set out from Uzunköprü to take his relatives,
who had attended his wife's funeral, back to Tekirdağ.  He apparently
lost control of his car on the Ortaca bridge due to the ice and snow
on the roadway.





           Saray district is in northeastern Tekirdağ province.

                   Hayrabolu is in northwestern Tekirdağ.