Boxers Outmatched; Radar Knocked Out

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(HaberTürk Newspaper, 2 December 2016)


Yes! That's the lovely and talented Adriana Lima!

In Adana, champion national boxers Buğra and Alptuğ Öner
were stabbed and shot by four people they got into a fight with.
The incident occurred yesterday at 19:30 in the Güzelyalı
neighborhood of Çukurova district.


Bantamweights. Tatoo ink gets them up to Super Bantamweight.

The boxing brothers met with A.Y. (26), M.S. (26), S.B. (28)
and H. Ç. (22), with whom they have had a long-standing
argument, in Güzelyalı.  A fight ensued and shots fired by an
as yet unknown shooter hit both brothers in their legs.  The
brothers were taken to a hospital and the 4 suspects turned
themselves into the police.


                         Adana province

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(Milliyet Newspaper, 2 December 2016)


       'Road Rage' exacts a heavy price.

In Lalapaşa district of Edirne province, farmer Hüseyin Sarpen (19)
was caught in a radar speed trap on 8 February.  Sarpen was fined
189 TL (about 60 USD) but the same night he got the fine notice
he drove under the influence of alcohol.  Sarpen was fined again and
his license taken away.

Enraged by all of this, Sarpen concealed his tractor's license plate
and ran over the TEDES (Traffic Electronic Supervision System)
radar tower he thought had been the one that caught him.  Actually,
the radar tower was inactive.

In any event, Sarpen was caught again and faced up to 4 years in
jail for damaging public property.  The company in Ankara that
makes the TEDES radar tower put the replacement cost at 90,000
Euros (!).  Sarpen said in court that he could pay 5,000 TL but no
more.  The judge then sentenced Sarpen to 1 year 8 months in jail.

A separate trial is continuing in Edirne court with regard to Sarpen
driving drunk.  He faces a 2-year jail sentence for that offense.



  Lalapaşa is the northernmost district of Edirne province.

Architectural Digest Edition

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(Milliyet Newspaper, 1 December 2016)


 It really does have quite a sinister look to it, for a building.       

In the course of the FETÖ/PDY (Fethullah Gülen Terror
Organization/Parallel State Apparatus) investigation conducted
in the aftermath of the events of 15 July, the administration of
Pamukkale University in Denizli was spurred to action by
social media postings.

The postings alleged that there is a masonic theme at the
university, that certain buildings on the campus contain masonic
symbols and that a structure resembling the masonic pyramid on
the back of the U.S. dollar bill is under construction there.



The first thing they learn in FETÖ architectural training.


The projects related to these buildings were prepared during the
period when Prof. Dr. Hasan Kaplan was the deputy rector.  Kaplan
has been arrested in connection with the FETÖ/PDY investigation.
It is claimed that the project were drawn up by some academicians
in the Architecture and Design Department.

It is further claimed that an L-shaped building housing the Physical
Therapy and Rehabilitation School, the Health Services and the
Senior Professional School will be completed in a pyramid shape
with the inclusion of a caneen in the front of it.  Above the structure
will be a lighted circular area that would represent the all-seeing eye
at the top of the pyramid on the U.S. dollar bill.


(Former) Chief Architect Fethullah Gülen.

The university has cancelled the construction of the canteen and
the new rector, Prof Dr. Hüseyin Bağ, stated that "I don't know
what the intention was for these buildings but these symbols being
built here raised an alarm.  We won't complete the remaining part
and we will develop a project to change the shape."

A statue of a bull, which is said to be one of the masonic symbols,
will be moved to a warehouse.  Rector Bağ asserted that "the bull
doesn't represent our province.  If it was a rooster then it would." (!)


                              Pamukkale (A)

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(Milliyet Newspaper, 1 December 2016)


         Everyone's building walls these days...

İdris Sarı lives in Derebaşı village in Rize province.  Nine years
ago he gave permission to his cousin Mehmet Sarı for a road to
be built on İdris's land for access to Mehmet's house.  A short
time ago, though, the cousins had a falling out and İdris decided
to build a 2-meter high concrete wall blocking the road to Mehmet's
house.


            Inspired by İdris Sarı.

With the closure of the road, Mehmet and the 30 people who live
near him in 6 houses have to climb a steep path to reach their homes.
Mehmet and his neighbors have filed a complaint in order to have
the road re-opened.


                  Rize province