"Fleece & Release": AI Video Used Famous Antalya Surgeon to Sell Fake Cream; Fake Doctor & "Sexy" Husband "Treat" Mersin

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 22 December 2024)

   Real doctor "endorsing" fake cream, thanks to AI.

Organ transplant expert surgeon Prof. Dr. Ömer Özkan, who

works at Akdeniz University's Prof. Dr. Tuncer Karpuzoğlu

Organ Transplant Institute in Antalya, has been victimized

by AI (artificial intelligence) on the internet.  Scoundrels

used AI to copy Dr. Özkan's voice in order to sell cream (!).

Dr. Özkan, the first surgeon in the world to do a womb

transplant and the first in Turkey to do face and arm

transplants, had given an interview sometime ago and the

scoundrels manipulated the interview video with AI  to

have Dr. Özkan praise a cream as the remedy for all sorts

of ailments and as a way to avoid operations.

Once he learned of the fake AI video, Dr. Özkan filed

criminal police reports. He stated that "I was very upset

when I saw the video.  We've gone too far with AI and it has

begun to cause big problems."  He added that the video

remained on social media for five days without being 

taken down. 

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 22 December 2024)

       Fake doctor "treating" patients, thanks to hutzpa.

Gendarmerie teams in Mersin learned that female Syrian

doktor K.Ş., who has no Turkish certification, was treating 

patients, and that her husband S.Ş. was making sex pills for

sale (!).  

Both of them were taken into custody and in a search

conducted at their address a doctor's apron, an ultrasound 

device, a stethoscope, two tension devices, 75 injectors, an 

acupuncture measuring device, 237 acupuncture needles, 

as well as 320 sex pills and the material used to make them, 

were seized.

"Batman & Release": Emergency Bat-phone Abuse in Batman Province

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 16 December 2024)

                      Batman province's first responders.

In Batman province, in the first 11 months of 2024, out of 

807,494 calls to "112" (Turkey's "911" emergency center)

647,519 were spurious.  One person made 11,156 spurious

112 calls in 4 months. (!)

The bonafide emergency "112" calls were directed for 

action to, in order, health services, police, fire department,

Gendarmerie, AFAD (disaster/search & rescue), and forestry.

9 people were identified and fined a total of 17,820 TL

(about $500) for making spurious "112" calls.

Tell-tale geography...

 

"Beat & Release": Too-smart BMW Catches Fire But Locks Out Owner, in Antalya

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 12 December 2024)

 

     Cars, like kids, today are too smart for their own good!

In Antalya's Kepez district, a fire in luxury BMW car's fuse box

prompted onlookers to alert the car's owner Gökhan Karabacak,

who arrived at the scene in the Fevzi Çakmak neighborhood, 

only to find that the car had locked itself and locked him out. (!)

Karaback broke the car's right rear window but still couldn't 

get to the fuse box fire under the front hood so he called the 

fire department.  Firefighters put the fire out and saved the car

from total destruction, although there was 40,000 TL ($1,100)

worth of damage done.  Karabacak had bought the car in 

Konya two years ago. 

"Beat & Release": Gendarmerie Seized "Golden Shoes", in Hakkari

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 11 December 2024)

                                             End user.

In Yüksekova district of Hakkari province, Gendarmerie teams

stopped a vehicle and found 18 kilograms of gold ingots 

hidden in the shoes of the two passengers (!).  The gold has

a market value of 54 million TL (about $1.5 million).

In an announcement the Hakkari Governorate stated that:

"The Hakkari Provincial Gendarmerie Command learned

from a tip that undeclared gold was being smuggled in a

vehicle in Yüksekova district.  The vehicle in question was

identified, stopped and a search of the two individuals inside 

the vehicle revealed 18 gold ingots, one of which was 

24-carat gold, with each ingot weighing one kilogram, hidden

in their shoes (!). Judicial measures have been initiated."

"Dive & Release": Gold From the Deep Found by "Hobby" Diver, Seized by Police, in Bartın

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 10 December 2024)

               Are pawn shops the same as museums?...

At the Küçük Liman bay in Amasra district of Bartın province, 

Sercan A. (35) dove in a restricted archeological site with a 

detector searching for gold.  Yesterday he did the same thing

at Büyük Liman bay, was taken into custody and released. 

Citizens noticed Sercan A. diving with the detector and 

informed the police and Coast Guard officials, who came and 

seized  a gold ring, earrings, coins and some other metal items

from Sercan A.  

He had come from Izmir to dive at the Bartın shore, saying

that he is not a treasure hunter and that this is just his hobby.

Sercan A. asserted that he turns over anything that might

have historical value to museums. (!) 

"Beat & Release": What's in a Name - Chilean Thief Escobar (!) Robs Swiss Businessman's Home, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 8 December 2024)

                Swiss Family Robbed and then some. 

In Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Chilean Franco Antonio Escobar climbed

the fence surrounding the home of  Swiss businessman 

Donikyan Kevork (63) and stole 3.5 TL worth of jewelry and

foreign currency from the safe.  He was pursued, caught and

jailed. 

The incident occurred about eight-thirty at night on 13 November

in the Kuruçeşme neighborhood.  Kevork, who lives with his

family in Istanbul, had gone out for the evening.  Taking full

advantage of Kevork's and his family's absence, the suspect

climbed up to the 3rd-floor flat, broke the window and 

entered, wounding his hand in the process.  Once inside, the

thief found the safe and removed the valuables.

Kevork returned home and realized he'd been robbed so he

called the police, who reviewed street security camera footage

and noted that the suspect had boarded a city bus. After 

reviewing 32 hours worth of footage from 54 cameras, police

nabbed Chilean national Franco Antonio Escobar S.J. (28)

in a hotel in the Beyoğlu neighborhood.  All of Kevork's

valuables were found in the Chilean's room and returned

to him.  Senor Franco was jailed.

Young Franco with Dad at the White House years ago.

"Beat & Release": Policeman O.K. Stole and Sold Guns & Ammo to Settle His Debts, in Adana

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 4 December 2024)

Hmmm, seems like a lot of stuff is missing...that's not OK!

New details have come out about the theft and sale of guns

and ammunition from the Adana police depot.  Special

operations policeman O.K. (!) planned the sale of the weapons 

and ammunition to settle debts he incurred playing the stock 

market. 

O.K. sold the weapons material to Y.Y., a policeman who

was fired because of his connections to FETÖ (Fethullah

Gülen Terror Organization) and his use of the FETÖ 

"ByLock" email system., through female "başkomiser"

(chief inspector) Z.T. M., assigned to the special operations

office in Mersin.  Z.T.M sold the items to a hunting shop,

together with A.M., the wife of a policeman in Mezitli, and

criminal organization lawyer M.Y.  

The suspects made the theft look like the guns and ammo

had been expended during training before selling them to

the criminal organization.  

Policeman O.K. sold t-shirts for his debt relief too.

Raids were conducted on 29 November and O.K., A.M.,

Z.T.M. and M.Y. were among the 11 suspects taken into

custody.  Found at M.Y.'s office were 139 hand bombs, 55

revolvers, 3 automatic revolvers, 2 hunting rifles, 7,621

bullets of various calibers, 200 clips, 17 ballistic vests, 5

electro-shock devices, 40 pepper spray canisters and 23

knives. (!)

An inventory of the depot revealed that 100 hand bombs

and 255,000 bullets were missing and police are trying to

track down the buyers of the stolen material.  O.K., who

confessed, former policeman Y.Y., lawyer M.Y., police

wife A.M., along with E.T., A.K. and K.B. were jailed

and four others released on judicial supervision.