Sabah
-- Mother and son die as train hits them
A mother and her 2-year-old son in the Central Anatolian province of Niğde were hit and killed by a train after they tried to cross the tracks instead of using the overpass, daily Sabah reported Tuesday. Ayten Çetin, 23, wanted to go to the bazaar with her son Salih, who was in a stroller. Çetin tried to cross the railroad, but the wheels of the stroller became stuck in the track. As Çetin was trying to remove the stroller’s wheels from the track, the pair was struck by the Erciyes Express. Witnesses of the crash which occurred in the city’s İlhanlı neighborhood called police and ambulances but health services pronounced the mother and son dead at the scene. Police informed the father, 25-year-old factory worker Cumali Çetin, who was left distraught after being informed of the death of his wife and son. The couple, whose only child was Salih, had been married for around 2.5 years and had moved into their house nearby just one week ago. Witnesses said people usually use the train road to cross to the other side because it is generally shorter than using the overpass. The engine drivers of the train were detained after the crash pending an investigation.
Milliyet
-- Killer’s sentence reduction upsets victim’s family
Friends and relatives of a woman murdered by a stalker are protesting a decision to amend the perpetrator’s sentence from life in prison without the possibility of parole to 25 years and 10 months in prison, daily Milliyet reported Tuesday. Hüseyin Zengin, a student at Harran University’s Medical Faculty in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, attacked student doctor Çağla Arin after she failed to return his romantic feelings, stabbing her 47 times in March 2008. Zengin also injured a friend of Arin’s who tried to prevent the attack. The court initially sentenced Zengin to life in prison without the possibility of parole but later converted his punishment to 25 years and 10 months after considering the impact of the event on Zengin’s future and his previous lack of criminal record. Arin’s family protested the decision and their lawyers appealed to the Prosecutor’s Office on behalf of the family. Nearly two years later, the Prosecutor’s Office 1st Criminal Division has approved the decision made by the local court, deeply upsetting Arin’s family, who lives in İzmir. Witness statements during the trial process illustrated the fear Arin experienced due to Zengin. After sending Arin flowers and chocolates for a few months, the man sent Arin approximately 4,000 threatening messages when she did not return his feelings.
Hürriyet
-- Air conditioner ‘repairmen’ con school
Four men and three women were taken into custody in Bursa after they removed 45 air-conditioning units from five schools in Antalya to sell them later in a secondhand market, daily Hürriyet reported. The group had told the schools’ principals that a philanthropist was willing to pay for the units’ maintenance and repair costs. Ramazan S., 25, told officials at the Antalya Provincial Education Directorate last week that a philanthropist who wished to remain anonymous wanted to pay the maintenance and repair costs of air conditioners in the city's schools, adding that the benefactor would also replace air conditioners that were too old. The officials directed Ramazan S. to the Aksu district Education Directorate. He removed 45 air-conditioning units from the five schools in the district with help from a repairman friend after receiving permission from school principals. School personnel realized they had been conned when the air-conditioners were not returned after a week and called the police. Police found the suspects at Uludağ ski resort, outside Bursa. The suspects were brought to Antalya and confessed to selling the air conditioners in a secondhand market. Ramazan S. and two other suspects were arrested by an Antalya court, while the others were released pending trial.
Vatan
-- Higher salaries to doctors taking fewer risks
The Turkish Medical Association, or TTB, has objected to “performance-based compensation,” which will be introduced at university hospitals this month, daily Vatan reported Tuesday. The group has said the scheme will result in doctors receiving higher scores for treating less-risky patients, causing doctors to give priority to patients requiring less effort. TTB Central Administrative Committee Chair Eriş Bilaloğlu said performance-based compensation, which will be implemented Jan. 31, should be abandoned, as the method will do huge damage to the health field. “As illnesses with more difficult diagnoses are harder to treat and do not bring any added benefit to a doctor’s performance score, easily treated, higher-scored and less risky illnesses will be treated first. Regardless of medicine applications’ scientific, correct and efficient qualities, the system only evaluates the numbers,” said TBB member Dr. Özlem Azap. While a doctor will receive a score of 2,000 for doing heart surgery, a doctor trying to resuscitate a patient whose heart has stopped will get a score of only 200. “We requested a meeting with the head of the YÖK [Higher Education Board], on Dec. 15. However, we haven’t received a positive or negative response yet. We are renewing our meeting request,” said Bilaloğlu.
From Anatolia News Agency:
HÜRRİYET
-- JUDICIARY DOES NOT TAKE ORDERS FROM ANYONE
President of the Council of State Mustafa Birden said the judiciary would not take orders from anyone. "The honorable justice minister who said precedents were changing in the Council of State implicated the judiciary. He should apologize immediately," said Birden.
-- 5 SOLDIERS KILLED IN HELICOPTER ACCIDENT
Radio contact was lost with one of the two UH-1 training helicopters shortly after they took off from the Etimesgut Military airbase in Ankara. The last words heard from the helicopter carrying 1 instructor and 4 trainees, has been: "I'm lost inside a cloud." The General Staff announced on its website at 11:35 p.m. that five pilot officers were killed in a helicopter crash near the Tuluntaş village in Sincan.
MİLLİYET
-- HELICOPTER CRASH: FIVE KILLED
UH1 type helicopter belonging to Land Forces Command crashed on Monday during night training flight killing five military officers. The helicopter, which took off from Land Aviation School Command at 6:30 p.m., did not return after 2.5 hours, although it had to.
Wreckage of the UH-1 helicopter was discovered in Tuluntaş village in Gölbaşı town of Ankara. General Staff did not explain the reason of the accident in its statement.
-- INVESTIGATION TO WORLD GIANT
Six CEOs of DHL, a world giant cargo company with its turnover exceeding 46 billion euros, are under investigation within the scope of corruption in customs.
The six CEOs were interrogated on charges of having links with entering of dutiable goods into the country free of duty.
SABAH
-- TRNC TO OPEN REPRESENTATION IN KUWAIT
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, or TRNC, will soon open a representation in Kuwait. The issue of the TRNC was discussed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Kuwaiti officials on Monday. TRNC's representation in Kuwait will function like a typical diplomatic entity.
-- MILITARY HELICOPTER CRASHES: 5 KILLED
A military helicopter on a training mission crashed around Tuluntaş village in Turkish capital Ankara on Monday night. Five pilots in the helicopter were killed in the crash.
-- NO MORE VISAS WITH ANOTHER COUNTRY
Turkey and Yemen will sign a visa liberalization agreement on Tuesday. The agreement will be signed by the foreign ministers of the two countries on Tuesday.
-- 3 PLANE LOAD BUSINESSPEOPLE AFTER $300 BILLION
500 Turkish businesspeople accompanying Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Kuwait and Qatar have their eyes on projects in the Gulf region. There are investments opportunities worth $130 billion in Kuwait and $150 billion in Qatar.
VATAN
-- TRAGEDY IN NIGHT FLIGHT: FIVE MARTYRS
Two UH1 type helicopters took off from Etimesgut Military base for night training. Communication was cut with one of the two helicopters 2.5 hours after its take off. There were one trainer and four students in the helicopter. No information could be taken from the helicopter for five hours. Rescue teams found out that the helicopter crashed near Polatlı.
General Staff later issued a statement and said, "A UH1 type helicopter belonging to Land Aviation School Command which took off for night training crashed near Tuluntaş village of Ankara killing five pilot officers. An investigation is underway into the incident".
-- HE DECIDED NOT TO FLY AND RESCUED HIMSELF
Iran said there was one Turkish passenger in the Boeing 727 which killed 72 people in Orumiyeh, however did not give information about his identity. It was later found out that a Turkish businessman Mehmet Nejat Balarısı decided not to fly at the last moment to put his signature to an agreement.
CUMHURİYET
-- TURKEY HEARD IT ALL WRONG
Culture and Tourism Minister Ertuğrul Günay tried to correct the remarks of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who regarded the "humanity monument" built by sculptor Mehmet Aksoy as freakish. Günay said the prime minister was actually referring to the shanty towns. "I was together with the prime minister during his trip to Kars. No where in his speech, did he say anything about a sculpture. We will not take down any monument or remove it," said Günay.
Sculptor Aksoy who responded to Erdoğan's remarks, said removing a sculpture suggesting peace would also harm Turkey's foreign policy. "Perceiving everything as political subject matter that could be exploited for political gains and efforts to pull the art in to this arena is display of animosity against Turkish art," said Aksoy.
-- JUSTICE MINISTER SHOULD APOLOGISE
The Council of State's President Mustafa Birden who responded to the remarks of Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin implying that the council of state was guided into creating precedents, said the judiciary would not take orders from anyone. "In the Council of State, the decisions are taken by people who have served as many years as his age. The minister should apologize," said Birden.
RADİKAL
-- "ELECTRONIC HANDCUFFS" TO BE IN USE IN TURKEY SOON
The Turkish legal system will soon begin using electronic handcuffs. These handcuffs make it possible to detect the whereabouts of criminals.
-- 14 PERCENT OF EXPORTS FROM UNION OF EXPORTERS OF AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
Turkey's exports in 2010 totaled $113.6 billion, with 14 percent of all Turkish exports in 2010 coming from the Union of Exporters of Automotive Industry, or OIB.
-- SOAP OPERAS MAKE TURKISH POPULAR IN WORLD
Chairman of the Yunus Emre Institute, Professor Fuat Bilkan, said: "Soap operas and developing commercial relations have made Turkish a popular language in the world.” The Institute's primary goal is to teach Turkish in all corners of the world. The Yunus Emre Institute is currently represented in Sarajevo, Tirana, Skopje, Cairo, Astana, London, Brussels and Damascus.
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