Sheep Graze Where Health Center Might Have Been, in Aydın

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Sözcü Newspaper, 27 November 2020)

                               They look pretty healthy.

In Yazıdere quarter of Aydın's İncirliova district, a 'Health and Special 

Rehabilitation Center' was planned for a 5-acre plot of land where there

was already a football field, children's park and wedding hall, all of

which were removed.  

Ten days prior to elections, Zehra Zümrüt, the Minister of Family, 

Work and Social Services, along with AKP (ruling party) 

parliamentarians, the Aydın governor at the time, Yavuz Selim

Köşger, and Mayor Gürşat Kale participated in a cornerstone ceremony

for the health center.  

                                   They don't look so healthy.

The center was supposed to have a capacity for the rehabilitation of

400 disabled patients and provide 200 jobs for the local populace.

However (!), when the AKP-MHP coalition lost the election, Aytekin

Kaya of the İYİ Party became the new mayor of Incirliova and the

health center project was forgotten. 

Although the center was to have been completed in a year, sheep

now graze on the plot of land.  Yazlıdere village chief Davut Noyan

lamented that "they tell us that the COVID-19 pandemic is the 

reason for the delay in construction.  But if the center won't be 

built give us back our football field, children's park and wedding 

hall!"

              İncirliova district is just west of Aydın city.