türkçe links to original Turkish article
(HaberGlobal website, 16 June2022)
Talk about your leg and elbow room!
Last Monday writer Ethem Baran boarded a plane in Ankara en route
to a book-signing appearance in Ağrı. However, the plane was forced
to land at Erzurum airport because of problems on the runway at Ağrı's
Ahmed-i Hani Airport.
The plane made the emergency landing at Erzurum at 2030 hours and
the rest of the passengers were taken to Ağrı by bus. Baran, though,
having missed his book-signing appearance, wanted to return to Ankara.
So at 2130 hours Baran boarded a 189-passenger capacity Anadolujet
airplane as the only passenger (!) and returned to Ankara at 2245 hours.
Baran explained that "I was supposed to go to Ağrı for a book-signing
on 3 June but learned the day before that the flight had been canceled.
So I got a ticket for a 6 June flight but, after boarding, that one was
canceled, too, because of cracks in the Ağrı runway. On 13 June the
flight took off after a 50-minute delay but when we got to Ağrı the
runway problem still hadn't been resolved so we had to land at
Erzurum, which we did at 2030 hours. They told us they'd take us to
Ağrı by bus but since I'd missed my book-signing I decided to return
to Ankara."
The airline officials arranged Baran's return ticket and put him back
on the same airplane but "when I realized I was the only passenger I
was quite surprised. Both the pilot and the cabin crew were very nice
to me and it was nice to be the only passenger. They gave me food and
drinks and we chatted all the way back to Ankara."
Since Baran had the books he was to have signed in Ağrı with him, he
signed them for the airplane crew as gifts. He was born in Yozgat in
1962. After university in Ankara, Baran taught at Gazi university there.
His first book was published in 1991 and he won the Sait Faik Story
Prize for his book "Döngel Dünya" in 2020.
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