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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 21 August 2024)
"Everyone else stops to talk but the walking man walks on by."
The night before last, when relatives of Salami Salman, who lived
on Terzi Street in the Kavakpınar neighborhood of Istanbul's Pendik
district, had not heard from him for two days they called the police,
who entered Salman's house and found him dead.
Salman was known as "The Walking Man" because he became a
topic of interest on social media for walking along the E-5 highway
from Tuzla, via Pendik and Kartal, to Maltepe, as astonished drivers
looked on. He earned the nickname "Pendik's Forrest Gump" for
his jaunts along the highway in winter and summer, no matter the
weather.
Salman's mother Medine Salman explained that as a young man her
son was very lively, rather than the grim-faced man drivers saw lately.
Medine hanım said that after a 9-year engagement (!) her son's fiancé
broke off the relationship and following that he suffered a head injury
from an accident. Subsequetly, all he did was walk along the highway
back and forth each day.
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