"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. 

"Fleece & Release": More Than Half a Million Dollars Bilked From Animal Donations, in Ankara

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 3 December 2024)

                    Buket hanım tending her herd.

The Ankara public prosecutor began an investigation into ill-gotten

gains reaped by the directors of the "Yaşama Tutanan Patiler Derneği"

(Association for Paws Holding on to Life) organization.  A total of 18

individuals came under suspicion of using contributions for the care

of animals for their own purposes, amounting to 20 million TL (about

$575,000) (!)

Nine of the 18 suspects were taken into custody, including association

chief Buket Özgünlü, her brother-in-law, and her older sister Demet 

Kılıç. These three were jailed as was Ertan Işık, the owner of a parrot 

shop (!).  They were charged with using donations that came for the 

care and feeding of animals for themselves.

Missing from the sign: "Hold on to your wallet!"

"Beat & Release": Ambulance Driver Attacked by Traffic Goons, in Bursa

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 2 December 2024)

      Hey guys! What about the heart attack victim??!!

On 10 October, ambulance driver Muhammet Ali Karasulu

was taking a heart attack victim to a hospital in Bursa, speeding

along the shoulder of the highway with his lights flashing and

siren blaring.  But when another car cut in front of Karasulu,

he had to slow down.  The driver of  the car in back of him 

wanted to pass Karasulu and succeeded in overtaking the

ambulance, cutting of Karasulu and stopping. 

Alighting from the car were Selim Yedikardeş, Semih 

Yedikardeş and Melih Yedikardeş, who cursed and insulted

Karasulu, whose throat was squeezed by Selim bey when

he got out of the ambulance.  Melih bey then began to punch

Karasulu, shouting "I'll kill you! You're done for!"  

Subsequent to this unpleasantness, Karasulu got a "darp"

(beating) report from a doctor to confirm his injuries, one

of which was a break in the "larnyx hyoid" bone in his

throat.  Police took the three Yedikardeşler's into custody

but they, in turn, filed a complaint against Karasulu for 

attacking them (!). 

Good thing he had an ambulance for himself.

Melih bey was jailed but his father Selim bey and brother

Semih bey were released.  After an inquiry, though, the

public prosecutor requested jail sentences of up to 8.5

years for Melih bey and Selim bey.  Semih bey was charged

with just "insulting".  

However (!), based on Melih bey's complaint, the public

prosecutor requested a jail sentence of up to 6.5 years

for Karasulu.  If this sentence is confirmed then Karasulu

will be barred from holding a government job.  In any case,

all the suspects will appear before a judge tomorrow. 

Artist Waited 55 Years to Claim Compensation for Atatürk Portrait - Too Late!

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 1 December 2024)

          Better late than never...but better never late.

Artist Etem Çalışkan first published his pencil-drawn portrait and 

signature of Atatürk on 10 November 1969.  Since then the work

has been seen all over and some merchants have printed and sold

t-shirts, such as textile firm owner B.S.  This situation has now

prompted artist Çalişkan to demand compensation. 

When B.S. learned of Çalışkan's complaint he says that he stopped

producing the t-shirts.  However, Ankara public prosecutor Mehmet

Taştan ruled that since up to now Çalışkan had never complained

about others using his work, 55 years later he cannot demand

compensation from B.S. or anyone else.

So maybe they should be free...or two for the price of one...

"Beat & Release": Counterfeiters Claim "Dollars" Came From Repaid Debts and Gambling Wins, in Adana

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 30 November 2024)

                                  Your picture here.

A criminal case was opened in Adana when it was determined

that $45,800 -"worth" of  fake (!) $100 dollar bills had been 

deposited into the ATM's of two bank branches about seven 

months ago on various dates.  

Adana police identified 15 suspects who were depositing the

fake dollars in the account of  others and subsequently 

converting the "dollars" to Turkish lira.  Raids were conducted

in Adana, Hatay and Mersin, with suspects A.Ö., F.K. and S.B.

among the 15 individuals taken into custody. 

Found at the suspects' addresses were 183 fake $100 bills, 

256 fake $1 bills, 36 fake $5 bills, one unlicensed revolver

and 36 bullets.

In their statements to police the suspects claimed that the

"dollars" they deposited in the ATM's came from repaid debts

and gambling wins - they didn't realize the "dollars" were 

fake (!).   In addition to A.Ö., F.K. and S.B. one other suspect

was jailed.  Eight suspects were released under judicial 

supervision and three were released outright based on the 

public prosecutor's decision. 

"Beat & Release": They're Playing Our Song (Not!), in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 29 November 2024)

                                    Somewhere else.

Last Saturday night at a nightclub where live music was being

played in the Kumkapı section of Istanbul's Fatih district, 3

inebriated friends demanded that their favorite song be played.

The manager told them to be patient and wait for their song but

they kept insisting to the point where they were thrown out. (!)

Enraged, the 3 friends hired two hitmen to drive by the club

on a motorcycle and spray it with gunfire, which resulted in the

death of waiter Recep Denizhan (23) who was hit by a bullet.  

Police are pursuing the 3 friends and their two hitmen. 

"Beat & Release": American Woman Terrorizes Taksim Square, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 28 November 2024)

must see video click here if you dare!

                                      Bad hair day.

An American woman named Sydney Rei Huff (27) went to a

bar in Istanbul's Taksim Square on the night of 23 November

with her husband Velican A. (26).  After drinking for a while,

the couple got into an argument and Huff hit Velican bey in

the face.  She then went out onto the street and attacked Mert

T. (30), squeezing his throat.  Passers-by intervened to save

Mert T., whose gold necklace was lost and his phone damaged.

Huff then continued on and attacked another person, after 

which she broke the windshield of Velat G.'s taxi (!).  Huff

sustained injuries and was put into an ambulance, in which

she attacked the medics (!).  Finally, police took Huff into

custody.  She was released from custody and deported. 

"Beat & Release": High-Kicking Taxi Driver Fends Off Knife Attack, in Burdur

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 27 November 2024)

Battle of the M's: fancy footwork keeps knife at bay.

In Burdur on 24 November at about 9 o'clock at night, Ş.A.

argued with her boyfriend M.T. and called a taxi to get away

from him.  M.T., though, tried to get Ş.A. out of the taxi but

when he couldn't he damaged the taxi, breaking a side-view

mirror.  This prompted taxi driver M.M. to get out and 

confront M.T., who then attacked the driver with a knife.

Luckily, M.M. is a "bezbol" fan...

M.M. high-kicked M.T. to keep him and his knife at a safe 

distance, as Ş.A. got out of the taxi and screamed for help.  

When passers-by intervened M.T. fled but, based on the 

complaint of M.M., who was uninjured, M.T. was taken into 

custody, only to be released the day before yesterday (!). 

"Crash & Release": Burning Russian Plane Slides Fortuitously to Airport Firehouse, in Antalya

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 26 November 2024)

                    Sometimes you just gotta get lucky.

An SU95-type airplane that took off from Soçi in Russia with a 

crew of 6 and 89 passengers, had an uneventful flight to Antalya

but experienced a hard landing last night at about nine-thirty 

o'clock on runway 36R.  Realizing that something had gone

badly amiss, pilot Vladimir Chernov issued a "Mayday" alert.

The hard landing broke one of the rear landing gear parts and

caused a fuel leak and a consequent fire from the engines' heat.

The Antalya Airport control tower crew reacted swiftly to inform

firefighters who were on the scene in one minute because the

burning plane slid right in front of the firehouse (!).  The fire

was extinguished in two minutes. 

However (!), there were still 3 tons of fuel in the airplane so a

great tragedy was averted because of the good fortune of the 

airplane ending up so close to the firehouse. An alcohol test 

given  to pilot Chernov and his co-pilot turned out negative.  

All on board were unhurt. 

A month ago, this same Azımuth Airlines SU95 aircraft took

off from Mineralnye Vody on 16 October headed for İvanovo

but at an altitude of 10 kilometers low hydraulic pressure forced

the plane to make an emergency landing at Vnukovo. All 102

passengers and the 6 crew members escaped the incident 

without injury. 

 

"Beat & Release": Modern Life's Deadly Twosome - Selfies & Social Media, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 25 November 2024)

 

                                 Selfie-inflicted wound.

The evening before last on the Aşiyan shore in Istanbul's 

Sarıyer district two friends were taking a selfie at the

fisherman's dock when the woman fell into the water.

Her male friend jumped in to save her but, subsequently,

the terrible weather conditions and the strong current 

prevented Coast Guard and municipal divers from finding 

them.

Eyewitness Kadir Akdere, a local fisherman, said "there

was a violent 'lodos' (southwesterly gale) happening. I

saw the two of them embrace each other in the water but

we were unable to reach them and save them."

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 25 November 2024)

 

                  Trouble in social media paradise.

Arya Arda Bektaş, a make-up producer and social media 

phenom,  has filed a criminal complaint against her former

partner Müberya Sağlam, also a social media phenom (!)

and make-up artist, for death threats hurled at Arya Arda hanım

by Müberrya hanım and her husband Mehmet Sağlam. 

police artist's sketch of Arya Arda hanım under threat.

"Beat & Release": Café Dispute Prompts Pummeling of Journalist, in Burhaniye

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 24 November 2024)

               Freedom of  (pummeling) the  press.

In Balıkesir's Burhaniye district on 19 November at around

2200 hours, Hasan Bayram, who was elected as a member of

the district's council in the 31 March elections from the CHP

party, went to a restaurant and attacked journalist Hakan 

Sataroğlu, the owner of the ZeytinEfe newspaper, smashing

a bottle into Sataroğlu's head. 

Bayram then grabbed Sataroğlu by the back of his neck and

dragged him onto the floor, kicking him while he was down.

Police arrived and had Sataroğlu taken to a hospital for 

treatment.  As for Bayram, he was released after giving a 

statement to police (!). 

The origin of the problem between the two was, evidently,

that Sataroğlu was looking into the matter of a municipal 

café on the shore having been given over to Bayram to run.

"Beat & Release": Under House Arrest, He Kills Wife at Home, Sheds Electronic Clamp and Flees, in Ankara

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 22 November 2024)

                      Home is where the heartless is.

Yesterday, Servet Bozkurt, who was under house arrest and wearing an 

electronic clamp for arranging a courthouse attack on Selma Ateş Kazanç, 

the older sister of murdered "Ülkü Ocakları" (Idealists Hearths - a right-

wing group) chief Sinan Ateş, killed his estranged wife and her boyfriend 

in Ankara, before fleeing to Istanbul.

At the 2 October hearing concerning Ateş's murder, Selma hanım was

attacked by Mert Can Kılıç, to whom Bozkurt had given 3,000 TL

(about $87) to perpetrate the assault.  Consequently, Bozkurt was 

sentenced to house arrest.

Yesterday in Ankara's Etimesgut district, Bozkurt and his wife Elif

Bozkurt, who is in the process of divorcing Bozkurt, argued at

their home. As their children sought refuge in a neighbor's house,

Bozkurt slit Elif hanım's throat, broke off the electronic 

clamp and fled the scene.   He then went to the shop of Elif hanım's

alleged boyfriend Hasan Şahin and stabbed him to death. 

Last night Bozkurt was captured at a hotel in Istanbul's Beylikdüzü

district.  He had left prison a year ago. 

Etimesgut, at mark.

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 22 November 2024)

                       "We would rather not die."

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya provided some grim statistics at a

TBMM (Turkish Parliament) hearing: 

Murders of women: 284 in 2022; 309 in 2023; 276 in first 10

months of 2024;

Restraint orders on males; 162,897 (!) - first 10 months of this year;

Security personnel suicides: last 1.5 years - 79 police; 74 Gendarmerie;

2 Coast Guard.  

"Dig & Release": Fake City Workers Digging in Downtown Isparta Were Treasure Hunters

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 21 November 2024)

          They claimed to have a secret treasure map.

The night before last at about nine-thirty, four "municipal workers"

wearing orange work vests began to dig on the sidewalk with a 

back-hoe in the center of Isparta city.  The four told onlookers that

they were city employees.  Shortly thereafter, though, their digging

caused damage to the underground electric and natural gas lines,

prompting the aforesaid onlookers to inform the authorities. 

Quickly, city officials and utilities personnel arrived at the scene

and determined that the four "municipal workers" were, in fact,

treasure hunters (!).  Three of them were apprehended at the scene

and the fourth was spotted by acting police chief Volkan Güneş,

who got out of his car and nabbed the suspect. 

After giving statements to the police, İsmail Avcı, Halis Tümen

Yaşar Güzel, Hacı Duran Cırdı and a fifth suspect, Şükrü Canıtez,

were arrested for "illegal trafficking in historical works" and 

"damage to public property".  The suspect refuted the charge 

about "treasure hunting" and "explained" that they were merely

doing some work on a construction project in the region (!).