"Undaunted Deliverance": Baby Born on Metrobus Gets Lifetime Transit Pass, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 17 October 2024)

                "Yılmaz Baby can ride my bus anytime!"

When Hanife Mete's labor pains demanded it and she couldn't

find a taxi in Esenyurt, Istanbul, to get to a hospital, Hanife 

hanım boarded a metrobüs, giving birth on the bus and naming

her new son "Yılmaz" ("undaunted").  (!)

In light of this historic birth, IETT (Istanbul's mass transit arm)

has issued young Yılmaz a lifetime free pass for all of Istanbul's

mass transit facilities, on the order of Mayor Erkem İmamoğlu. 

Mustafa Bozdemir, the driver of the 34 AS Avcılar-Soğütlüçeşme

metrobüs, related that "when we came to the Küçükçekmece stop

the lady's labor pains increased, so I began to get the other 

passengers off the bus.  One of our security personnel came and

we pulled the bus into an appropriate place.  Then the medical

personnel arrived. For me, it was an event I could never have 

imagined."

Added to the list of maternity hospitals in Istanbul: