Girl Power! For Better or Worse

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(Yeni Safak Newspaper, 24 September 2014)


Legend has it that the Amazons ruled nearby Sinop...

In Fatsa district of Ordu province, ten women gave birth to 12
girls in succession in the space of two days at a private hospital.
Two of the women had girl twins. The doctors involved in the
deliveries - Dr. Suheyla Cetintas, Dr.Lale Usta and Dr. Sadi
Aksehirli - calculated the odds of such an event afterwards.

According the their calculations, the likelihood of 12 girl babies
being born in a row, with two twins, is 1 in 105 million.
Dr. Aksehirli noted that 99 million babies are born in the world
each year so witnessing such an event was quite remarkable.


                  Ordu province.

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(Hurriyet Newspaper, 24 September 2014)



                   "Today is your last hubby!"

In Yakutiye district of Erzurum yesterday morning, Kezban
Karatas (40) was walking with her husband Ersin Karatas (43)
in front of the Kazim Karabekir Business Center. Suddenly,
Kezban exclaimed "enough! I'm going to kill you!". She pulled a
revolver from her purse and fired. Her husband Ersin was hit
in the stomach and fell to the ground.

Kezban called for a health rescue team and then summoned the
police, saying that she had shot her husband.  Kezban waited at her
husband's side until the rescuers came and was then taken into
custody. Ersin was brought to a hospital. An eye witness to the
event, H.M., related that "there wasn't any argument. The woman
pulled out the gun and shot her husband, saying 'he abandoned
us for a whore!'. She then looked at him and screamed 'look into
my eyes. Today is your last day.'"


               Erzurum province.
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(Sabah Newspaper, 24 September 2014)


Husbands' 'spare wife' idea didn't sit well with Fatma and Seher.

Two young women in Sanliurfa attempted suicide because their
husbands had brought a 'kuma' (spare wife) into their homes. The
two women jumped into an irrigation canal in plain view of police
and were rescued by divers.

The incident occurred the evening before last at the DSI irrigation
canal next to the Sanliurfaspor GAP Valley facility in Haliliye
district.  According to reports, Fatma L. (28) and Seher E. (24),
who are friends living in the same neighborhood, were both
subjected to a Syrian 'kuma' brought into their homes by their
husbands.

The two women objected to the 'kuma' but were then beaten by
their husbands, who also kept their children from seeing their
mothers. The women decided to commit suicide and stood on
a bridge over the canal hand in hand.  Police tried for an hour
to dissuade the women but they jumped anyway. Police divers
retrieved the women, who were brought to Mehmet Akif Inan
Training and Research Hospital, where their condition is good.
Reportedly, the two women tried to commit suicide a week
ago, as well.  An investigation into the incident has been started.



Haliliye district is within the provincial capital Sanliurfa.

Vets' Building With a High Handicap

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(Posta Newspaper, 21 September 2014)


Might as well be Mt. Everest.


The Erzurum office of the Turkish War Veterans, Widows
and Orphans Association is located on the top floor of a
6-story building in the Yakutiye section of the city. Nine
years ago the Erzurum Trade and Industry group assigned
the office space to the Association.

However, since the building does not have an elevator disabled
veterans cannot visit the office. A bitter example of this was
on display yesterday when protocol members visited the
Association as part of 'Veterans Week'.  The visitors who
could reach the office were out of breath after climbing 6
flights of stairs. Meanwhile, the disabled veterans were left
waiting at the building's front door and were not pleased.

Association President Recep Akgul said that "since the state
didn't give us a place we were forced to accept this office.
We've been pleading everywhere for a new office for 9
years so that our disabled members could visit their Association's
office. Noone listened to us, though."


               Erzurum province.

Chinese Sewer Water Torture - For a Cellphone

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(Sabah Newspaper, 22 September 2014)

//ed. note: like the rest of the world, we (occasionally)
import from China.//


Hubby dreaded wife's wrath, but paid a higher price.

In China's Shinyang region, a $300 telephone that fell into a
toilet caused a tragedy. According to a report in the South
China Morning Post, a man who dropped his wife's new
telephone into the toilet lowered himself into the well adjacent
to the sewer system to retrieve it but fainted when he had trouble
breathing. The man's mother, not hearing her son's voice,
panicked and went into the well herself.  The mother fainted, too.

The man's father, realizing that his son and his wife had
disappeared in the well, asked for help from neighbors. However,
before help could arrive the father had lowered himself  into
the well.  Eye witnesses reported that some of the neighbors
went into the well in an effort to save those who had fainted but
none of them reappeared.

Rescue teams reached the scene and with the help of rope were
able to retrieve 6 people from the well. The son and mother who
were at the bottom of the well for some time lost their lives. A
mother of a one-year old child and another neighbor were in
intensive care.

One of the neighbors who went into the well related that "the
smell was quite strong (!). After I lowered down I couldn't see
anything and fainted."  Witnesses to the incident stated that
the mother and son were alive when they were brought out of
the well but because it took the ambulance an hour to reach the
hospital they could not be saved.