yayla (links to original article)
(Hürriyet Newspaper, 13 April 2011)
Tailor Ali Yayla (35) lived with his wife and three children in Uşak. Two
years ago he co-signed for 50,000TL worth of credit that his friend
Güray Tıraş was planning to get from a bank. Tıraş didn't make either the
credit payments or the interest from the first month on so when the debt
reached 70,000TL the bank started proceedings against Yayla. Explaining
the situation to his wife, Yayla said that they must divorce in order to avoid
losing all their assets.
The couple divorced amiably in one court hearing but continued to live
in the same house. Yesterday morning at 0730, however, the repossession
officials came to their house. Yayla panicked and tried to hide himself on
the bedroom balcony but when he heard the officials and a lawyer come
into the bedroom looking for him he used his leather belt to tie himself to
the balcony's iron bars, dangling from the seventh floor. The belt could not
carry Yayla's weight and the unlucky tailor fell to his death below.
15 Nisan 2011 Cuma
13 Nisan 2011 Çarşamba
Old Pair Going Strong After 92 Years of Marriage
//ed. note: no link available//
(Sözcü Newspaper, 12 April 2011)
Abdullah Adıgüzel is 114 years old and lives in Arguvan district of
Malatya province where he celebrated his birthday with his wife
Elif Adıgüzel who is 111 years old. The Adıgüzel couple stated that
they have been married for 92 years and that they continue to have
the same love and respect for each other that they had on the day
they met.
(Sözcü Newspaper, 12 April 2011)
Abdullah Adıgüzel is 114 years old and lives in Arguvan district of
Malatya province where he celebrated his birthday with his wife
Elif Adıgüzel who is 111 years old. The Adıgüzel couple stated that
they have been married for 92 years and that they continue to have
the same love and respect for each other that they had on the day
they met.
Free Plane Trip Too Tempting for Sevinaz Hanım
selvinaz (links to original article)
(Hürriyet Newspaper, 12 April 2011)
Entrepreneur Selvinaz Soner opened the Private Antalya Neşe Erberk
Grammer School, within the framework of the franchising system of
the modeling agency owned by Neşe Erberk, in 2006. During Kurban
Bayramı (Feast of the Sacrifice) break that year Soner took all the
money given to her by the parents of the school's children and disappeared.
She has been caught at Antalya Airport.
In order to capture Soner, about whom there were two outstanding
warrants, the police put an interesting plan into operation. The police
got an old boyfriend of Soner's, to whom she owed money, to cooperate
with them. The boyfriend called Soner and told her that he forgave her.
The man, whose identity was not revealed, said that he missed Soner,got
her a plane ticket and invited her to come to Antalya. Although she
knew that she was being sought by police, Soner accepted the invitation
and flew to Antalya. While waiting for her suitcase Soner was arrested
and taken to jail.
(Hürriyet Newspaper, 12 April 2011)
Entrepreneur Selvinaz Soner opened the Private Antalya Neşe Erberk
Grammer School, within the framework of the franchising system of
the modeling agency owned by Neşe Erberk, in 2006. During Kurban
Bayramı (Feast of the Sacrifice) break that year Soner took all the
money given to her by the parents of the school's children and disappeared.
She has been caught at Antalya Airport.
In order to capture Soner, about whom there were two outstanding
warrants, the police put an interesting plan into operation. The police
got an old boyfriend of Soner's, to whom she owed money, to cooperate
with them. The boyfriend called Soner and told her that he forgave her.
The man, whose identity was not revealed, said that he missed Soner,got
her a plane ticket and invited her to come to Antalya. Although she
knew that she was being sought by police, Soner accepted the invitation
and flew to Antalya. While waiting for her suitcase Soner was arrested
and taken to jail.
8 Nisan 2011 Cuma
'Pimp' Unwittingly Advertises His Services
pimp (links to a related article)
(Sözcü Newspaper, 7 April 2011)
//ed. note: herewith a splendid example of people, Turks in this case,
buying and wearing clothes with English slogans, sayings, etc. even
though the wearer has no clue what he's telling the world.//
In Antalya Mehmet Çobanoğlu filed suit when the store where he bought
a sweater bearing the words 'chic pimp fetish machine' wouldn't take the
sweater back. A court decided that the store must return the cost of the
sweater to Çobanoğülu.
Çobanoğlu said that he had become an object of ridicule around town
because of the sweater but his plea for 10,000TL in compensation for
mental anguish was rejected by the court.
(Sözcü Newspaper, 7 April 2011)
//ed. note: herewith a splendid example of people, Turks in this case,
buying and wearing clothes with English slogans, sayings, etc. even
though the wearer has no clue what he's telling the world.//
In Antalya Mehmet Çobanoğlu filed suit when the store where he bought
a sweater bearing the words 'chic pimp fetish machine' wouldn't take the
sweater back. A court decided that the store must return the cost of the
sweater to Çobanoğülu.
Çobanoğlu said that he had become an object of ridicule around town
because of the sweater but his plea for 10,000TL in compensation for
mental anguish was rejected by the court.
6 Nisan 2011 Çarşamba
Footballers' Off-field Heroics
futbol (links to original article)
(Sabah Newspaper, 22 March 2011)
Footballers from Zonguldakspor on their way to an away match in
Ankara on the team bus encountered an accident in which a car had
fallen into the river in Devrek district of Zonguldak province. The
footballers rescued the injured passengers from the car and recorded
the rescue on video with their cellphones. One person died and three
people were injured in the incident.
A car with plate number 67 ES 984 driven by Cemal Yardım fell into
the river from an approximately ten-meter cliff on the Devrek-Bolu
highway in Mengen district. The Zonguldakspor team, one of the regional
amateur clubs, was on its way to an away match in Ankara when they
saw the accident. They then got off their bus in order to help the accident
victims.
The footballers and a rescue team learned from Yardım, who was injured
but had managed to get himself out of the overturned vehicle, that there were
three other people trapped in the car. The players and rescuers descended
from the cliff and saved Nihal Yurtbay and Mahir Yardım. The footballers
were able to extract the wounded to the road above using the branches
of the tall trees lining the steep hill. With the help of the 112 Rescue Service
team that had arrived at the scene of the incident, they successfully extracted
82-year old Rakibe Yardım from the crushed car.
The victims were all taken to Zonguldak Atatürk State Hospital except for
the seriously injured Rakibe Yardım who was transported to Zonguldak
Karaelmas University Medical Department Hospital where she died. The
footballers, who recorded their rescue efforts with their cellphones, departed
for Ankara afterwards.
(Sabah Newspaper, 22 March 2011)
Footballers from Zonguldakspor on their way to an away match in
Ankara on the team bus encountered an accident in which a car had
fallen into the river in Devrek district of Zonguldak province. The
footballers rescued the injured passengers from the car and recorded
the rescue on video with their cellphones. One person died and three
people were injured in the incident.
A car with plate number 67 ES 984 driven by Cemal Yardım fell into
the river from an approximately ten-meter cliff on the Devrek-Bolu
highway in Mengen district. The Zonguldakspor team, one of the regional
amateur clubs, was on its way to an away match in Ankara when they
saw the accident. They then got off their bus in order to help the accident
victims.
The footballers and a rescue team learned from Yardım, who was injured
but had managed to get himself out of the overturned vehicle, that there were
three other people trapped in the car. The players and rescuers descended
from the cliff and saved Nihal Yurtbay and Mahir Yardım. The footballers
were able to extract the wounded to the road above using the branches
of the tall trees lining the steep hill. With the help of the 112 Rescue Service
team that had arrived at the scene of the incident, they successfully extracted
82-year old Rakibe Yardım from the crushed car.
The victims were all taken to Zonguldak Atatürk State Hospital except for
the seriously injured Rakibe Yardım who was transported to Zonguldak
Karaelmas University Medical Department Hospital where she died. The
footballers, who recorded their rescue efforts with their cellphones, departed
for Ankara afterwards.
Excess Passengers Retard Elevator Operation
elevator (links to original article)
(Hürriyet Newspaper, 4 April 2011)
Following a wedding ceremony held in the wedding hall on the top floor
of the Tokat Almus District Solidarity and Assistance Association's four-
story building last night some guests descended using the stairs while others
took the elevator. But when ten people boarded the 4-person elevator it
began a rapid free-fall because of the heavy load. The incident took place
on Sırrı Çelik Boulevard in the Taşdelen neighborhood of Cekmeköy,
Istanbul.
The passengers panicked as the elevator finally hit the basement floor hard.
Firefighters opend the elevator door and rescued those inside. Güldane
Taşbaş and Birten Aytaç who suffered cracks to bones in their feet were
taken to Ümraniye Training and Research Hospital. One of the affected
elevator passengers said in the incident's aftermath 'we're retarded. Too
many of us got on the elevator.'
(Hürriyet Newspaper, 4 April 2011)
Following a wedding ceremony held in the wedding hall on the top floor
of the Tokat Almus District Solidarity and Assistance Association's four-
story building last night some guests descended using the stairs while others
took the elevator. But when ten people boarded the 4-person elevator it
began a rapid free-fall because of the heavy load. The incident took place
on Sırrı Çelik Boulevard in the Taşdelen neighborhood of Cekmeköy,
Istanbul.
The passengers panicked as the elevator finally hit the basement floor hard.
Firefighters opend the elevator door and rescued those inside. Güldane
Taşbaş and Birten Aytaç who suffered cracks to bones in their feet were
taken to Ümraniye Training and Research Hospital. One of the affected
elevator passengers said in the incident's aftermath 'we're retarded. Too
many of us got on the elevator.'
Flag-burning When the Flag Won't Burn
flag (links to original article)
(Hürriyet Newspaper, 4 April 2011)
A group in Adana wanting to protest the operation directed against Libya
tried to burn an American flag. But when the flag wouldn't burn one of the
women protestors took some nail polish from her handbag and used the
acetone from the nail polish to try to ignite the flag. The acetone was lit
with a cigarette lighter and caught fire, but only for a moment before going
out.
Despite trying this technique a number of times, the result was unsuccessful.
At this point the group gave up shouting slogans to concentrate on the effort
to light the flag. After a long period of wrestling with the flag-lighting problem
some of the protestors began to say things like 'don't print flags from this kind
of paper ever again' and 'their flag doesn't burn.' One protestor lit the paper
on which the group's press release had been written and put the flag on top
of it, igniting the flag. Thanks to this arrangement of putting the flag on top of
a pile of papers the burning of the flag ensued.
(Hürriyet Newspaper, 4 April 2011)
A group in Adana wanting to protest the operation directed against Libya
tried to burn an American flag. But when the flag wouldn't burn one of the
women protestors took some nail polish from her handbag and used the
acetone from the nail polish to try to ignite the flag. The acetone was lit
with a cigarette lighter and caught fire, but only for a moment before going
out.
Despite trying this technique a number of times, the result was unsuccessful.
At this point the group gave up shouting slogans to concentrate on the effort
to light the flag. After a long period of wrestling with the flag-lighting problem
some of the protestors began to say things like 'don't print flags from this kind
of paper ever again' and 'their flag doesn't burn.' One protestor lit the paper
on which the group's press release had been written and put the flag on top
of it, igniting the flag. Thanks to this arrangement of putting the flag on top of
a pile of papers the burning of the flag ensued.
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