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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 19 December 2023)
Married couples are taking part in the training, too.
Previously, health workers in Gaziantep were given training in "kung fu"
and now the Confiscation Directorate has requested similar training for
its officials. (!) The confiscation officials work in a risky environment
so with the "kung fu" training they will be better able to defend
themselves.
Twenty confiscation officials, some of them women, have begun
"warming-up" activities and will be learning the basic techniques of
this close-in art of fighting. Şeyhmus Çakmak, the Gaziantep
provincial representative for the Turkey Wushu Kungfu Federation,
who is also the trainer for the national "kung fu" team, said that "from
time to time these officials find themselves in difficult situations and
face resistance from their opposite parties. So when we received this
request we began giving them basic self-defense training. We are
trying to tone down the fury and anger in the community and get
people to communicate better with one another."
Çakmak added that with this training the confiscation officials will
be able to protect themselves when faced with violence in the
performance of their duties.
Two confiscation officials went a bit overboard during
the training...
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