Svengali, Rasputin and Now, Ramazan Durak, Again

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(Sabah Newspaper, 13 October 2014)


Instead of  ballplayers, boyhood idols - Svengali and Rasputin.

Ramazan Durak, in the guise of a religious man, introduced
himself  to F.B. at the Eyub Sultan tomb as a healer. F.B.
explained to Durak that her 16 year-old daughter was
continuously experiencing headaches. In response, Durak
fooled F.B. by claiming  that "I can heal her" and stayed in
F.B.'s house for 40 days, acquiring the woman's gold and
bank money in the process. Durak even got F.B. to sign
over her 400,000 TL ($200,000)-valued house as "payment
for treatment."

After some time, when her daughter's situation did not improve,
F.B. became suspicious and searched the internet for news
about Durak, ultimately realizing that she had been duped.
Based on F.B.'s complaint, Durak was arrested for 'sexual
harassment', 'fraud', 'wrongful seizure' and 'falsification'.
Durak was found to have 12 outstanding warrants against him
and the 115,000 TL he was carrying was seized.


     Even then they knew...

It turned out that Durak had first been in the news in 1998 when
he was involved in a sexual harassment scandal in Malatya.
In that case, Durak promised unsuccessful students that he could
get them through their classes by writing charms for them but
instead he brought the children to his home and sexually
harassed them.

After spending two years in jail, Durak was released and last
year he convinced a woman in Corum named H.K. that he had
special powers. Durak promised to marry H.K. and invited her
to Malatya, after which he bilked H.K. of 650 TL ($325).



                Malatya province.

In Defense of Doctors: Tae Kwon Do

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(Sabah Newspaper, 14 October 2014)

action video short on tae kwon do but long on E-room chaos.


Mild-mannered Dr. Bilgili actually a SuperHero!

A doctor working in the emergency room at Dursun Odabas
Medical Center of Yuzuncu Yil University in Van was attacked
by the relatives of a patient but thanks to his tae kwon do training
he was able to defend himself. The action was captured on the
hospital's security camera.

When patient I.G. passed away his relatives began arguing with
hospital staff at the intensive care unit for chest ailments. The
relatives then headed for the emergency room where they
attacked Dr. Mehmet Ali Bilgili.  One of them leapt up on the
counter and tried to kick Dr. Bilgili, who was working at the
computer there. Bilgili, who is a tae kwon do enthusiast, grabbed
the attacker's foot and brought him down. Bilgili took on and
bested another 4 of the enraged relatives.

In the video, police and hospital staffers are seen trying to
move the relatives out of the emergency room. As for Bilgili,
he filed a police complaint against the relatives and noted that
attacks on hospital staff have become so commonplace that
the public is now  inured to them.  He added that "I was working
as usual on Saturday when, I later learned, a patient in intensive
care died and after arguing with the doctor and nurses there
the relatives attacked me.  Thank God I wan't injured. As
health providers we don't want to see anyone harmed. I hope
we don't see any more of these incidents."


Van province in extreme eastern Turkey.

Vampire Grave Unearthed In Bulgaria

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(Sabah Newspaper, 13 October 2014)


Got the traditional 'stake-through-the-heart' treatment.

Prof. Nikolai Ovcharov, who has dedicated his life to exposing
the secrets of antique civilizations  and who has earned the
moniker 'Bulgaria's Indian Jones',  has found a 'vampire
grave' at Perperikon, which was discovered 20 years ago in
the south of the country.

Perperikon dates back to 5,000 years B.C.  The findings unearthed
on Thursday are believed to be from the 13 century A.D.  The
famous archeologist stated that the most arresting detail of the
skeleton found in the grave is a metal object - a stake - in the
skeleton's chest.  Prof. Ovcharov explained that this stake was
used to prevent the dead from rising from the grave and causing
harm to living persons.

Prof. Ovcharov went on to say that "practices such as this could
be used for those who lost their live by unusual means, like
suicide."  He added that they guessed that the skeleton belonged
to a person aged about 40 or 50. The stake thrust into the chest
was a piece of a horse cart axle.

This 'vampire grave' very much resembles others found in Sozopol,
200 miles east of Perperikon. Bozhidar Dimitrov, the head
of the National History Museum in Sofia  stated that over 100
skeletons belonging to people believed to have been vampires
have been unearthed in Bulgaria.


Perperikon is near Kharzhali in the extreme south of Bulgaria.
Sozopol is on the Black Sea coast, 200 miles to the east, near
Bourgas.

Frog & Turtle Edition

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(Haberler.com, 11 October 2014)



Five people hunting small frogs in Girdev Lake in Seydikemer
district of Mugla provice  were caught red-handed and fined
175,965 TL ($87,000).  Gendarmerie units from the Seki
Gendarmerie post linked to the district conducted the raid last
night and nabbed M.Y. (38), S.Y. (19), Y.Y. (17), M.Y. (28)
and M.Y. (22).

A total of  9 baskets full of the frogs, which the suspects intended
to sell, were confiscated and returned the lake.  In accordance with
Environment Law number 2872, paragraph 20/k,  each suspect
was fined 35,193 TL, totaling 175,965 TL for all five of them.

Saklikent National Park superintendant Sedat Gavcar noted that
collecting wild animals in wetlands is prohibited and he asserted
that supervision of Girdev Lake is non-stop.  He added that
"Girdev's ecologic balance is very delicate and frogs have a role
in maintaining this balance. That's why we're very concerned
about humans upseting the situation. Our citizens should
definitely not enter wetlands to hunt frogs."


Seydikemer district of Mugla province.

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(Bugun Haberler, 8 October 2014)


  Not ready for the Siberian winter.

A Russian tourist who took a baby turtle back to Russia from Turkey
had to pay a fine of 500 rubles (about $12). Aleksey Alekseyenko, the
advisor to the head of Rosselhoznadzor, the Russian Federal Plant
Protection and Quarantine Service, told the Cihan News Agency that
the turtle would be returned to Turkey on the same airplane it came
to Russia on.  He added that the passenger who brought the turtle had
no documents related to the animal and was therefore hit with the
monetary fine.

Shopkeeper Locks Up Recidivist Thief

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(Milliyet Newspaper, 11 October 2014)


H.T.comes back a second time to rob the store...

In Samsun, a thief had an idea to rob the same store a second
time but an alert shopkeeper noticed the thief and locked him
inside the store.  The robber was turned over to the police.
Security cameras captured the incident moment by moment.


but a neighbor shopkeeper alertly locks him in...

The incident occurred in the 19 Mayis neighborhood of Ilkadim
district. According to available information, known thief H.T.
(39), who has a long record of robberies, entered the shoe repair
shop of Ismael K. (48) on 29 September and stole 150 TL ($75)
from the cash draw.


in the end, a forlorn H.T. has visions of his next home.

The photo of the thief who emerged from the store was used to
identify the robber.  The neighboring shopkeeper took note of the
person in the photo and kept watch, thinking that the thief might
return for another robbery.

Sure enough, H.T. came back to rob Ismail K.'s store again but
after he entered the store the neighbor shopkeeper shut the
gate after him, locking H.T. in the store.  H.T. was taken into
custody by the police and a grateful Ismail K. said that "my
neighbor shopkeeper did a great thing locking the thief in the
store and calling the police."


Ilkadim district is part of Samsun city.

Murder: Always a Newsmaker

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(Sabah Newspaper, 9 October 2014)


Tilki (which means 'fox') - too sly for his own good?

Two bodies were found in  garden houses belonging to
Yucel Bozkurt at Yukari Kayhan in Yassicali hamlet  of
Adana's Kozan district.  Someone who saw a person lying
motionless inside the house in the morning informed the
Gendarmerie. The dead person, who was poisoned, was
determined to be the garden watchman Serkan Tilki (28).

When garden owner Yucel Bozkurt told officials that his
son had been missing for two days a search of the garden
was conducted but no trace was found. The Gendarmerie
team then broke the windows of another garden house
and entered, finding the body of Volkan Bozkurt (34),
whose arms and legs had been bound. Bozkurt had been
shot in the head and chest with a hunting rifle.

At the spot where Tilki was found dead there was a note
that read "they made me do this. I can't live with this evil
deed. Please forgive me, I had to do it."  Officials are
considering the possibility that Tilki killed Bozkurt and
then committed suicide.


Kozan district is in central Adana province.
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turkce links to original Turkish article

(Sabah Newspaper, 9 October 2014)


Pizza as a last meal...

In Istanbul, Adem Sahin had his throat cut by his
five partners and died. Details of the murder have
come out thanks to video records, in which Sahin
is seen giving pizza and a drink to the killer, a relative.

The body of Adem Sahin (39), a florist, was found on
wednesday evening, 1 October, at about 9 PM in the
trunk of an abandoned car in Buyukcekmece, Istanbul.
Investigations revealed that Sahin had been beaten
before his throat was cut. There were knife cuts on his
arms and legs, as well.

Police determined that Sahin was killed by five
business partners because of a money dispute. The
partners did not get money back from Sahin and
decided to kill him. The video showed that prior to
the murder, Sahin had eaten pizza with one of the
partners, I.G., before he was taken to a nearby field,
beaten and stabbed.

Citizens who noticed blood on the abandoned car
alerted police, who found Sahin's body. I.G. (24), a
distant relative of Sahin, and the other 4 suspects
were arrested two days later.  the knife used in the
murder was retrieved from the water along the shore
at Buyukcekmece.

After murdering Sahin, the suspects threatened his
wife in an effort to obtain two apartments Sahin
owned in Istanbul. Four of the suspects were
incarcerated.

  
             Buyukcekmece district, Istanbul