Sabah
-- Disabled people await a rehabilitation center
A rehabilitation center that was closed three days after opening because of a contradiction between the municipality where it is was located and the body running it, has led to 107 disabled not receiving treatment in Istanbul’s Maltepe district, daily Sabah reported Monday.
According to reports, the fate of the Bahadır Erdoğdu Private Training and Rehabilitation Center, which was closed Dec. 3 on the U.N’s International Day of Disabled Persons, is still uncertain. Süleyman Yaprak, head of the Maltepe Disabled and Rehabilitation Foundation that ran the center, said it was constructed by a benefactor.
“We have 4,100 square meters of covered space and 4,150 square meters of open space, and provide free services to disabled students,” Yaprak said, adding that center administration had paid 160,000 Turkish Liras and the municipality 700,000 liras in contributions to make the center ready to offer services.
“Municipal officials and police came to the center and said protocol had been breached and forced us to leave. This problem has caused great suffering for our young people,” he said.
Meanwhile, Maltepe Municipality officials said they closed the center because it’s administration had violated protocol.
Radikal
-- Unlucky patient waits for cables
Nihat Çelebi, from the western province of Aydın, is unlucky for more than his 19 surgeries for a slipped disk, the daily Radikal reported on Monday.
Çelebi, 55, was not able to even walk due to heavy pain because of the slipped disk. As a last remedy, he had a $47,000 device implanted underneath his skin that mitigates the pain with vibration. Two devices were required for him. The first was successfully implanted, but for the second one, things did not go right. A doctor tried to implant the device three times before succeeding. However, Çelebi’s pain increased as the device was too close to his backbone. In the fourth surgery, the doctor cut the device’s cables by mistake, leaving it functionless. The hospital began a bidding process for new cables, which are worth 1,500 Turkish Liras. However no results have been obtained from the bid yet. Çelebi wanted to meet Health Minister Recep Akdağ, who came to Aydın, to document his problem. Police thought he was a suicide bomber, though, because he had the cables of the device on him. He was detained. Osman Nuri Aydın, Çelebi’s doctor, said he was one of the unluckiest patients he had ever seen.
Taraf
-- Voluntary prisoners for four years
The son and brother of a paralyzed convict are staying in prison by taking turns to take care of their relative, daily Taraf reported Monday. Temino Baysal was involved in a fight in Siirt which resulted in the death of a person in 2002, after he which he was tried with six other suspects and convicted to nine and a half years in prison. He escaped to Istanbul but relatives of the deceased tracked him down and allegedly shot him there. After he was apprehended, Temino Baysal was sent to a prison in Siirt in a wheelchair because the shooting resulted in paralysis to 80 percent of his body. Because of the man’s conditions, Temino Baysal’s brother, Çetin Baysal, and son, Kurban Baysal, have been taking turns for the last four years in coming to prison to attend to his needs as the prisoner cannot feed himself nor go to the washroom alone. Çetin Baysal said his nephew was working at a restaurant so was unable to help much these days. “There is nothing to do. He is bedridden. I stay with him, clean his [underpants and]. I will come and go until he gets out.” There is a period of only three and a half months left on Temino Baysal’s sentence but the family is already struggling financially, Çetin Baysal said. The Diyarbakır branch of the Human Rights Association handed a dossier featuring the conditions of prisoners like Temino Baysal to President Abdullah Gül during his recent visit to Diyarbakır and the family are hoping for a pardon.
Habertürk
-- Three religions meet at airport
Istanbul’s Asian-side Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, which sees 25 million travelers a year, has built chapels and synagogues next to its mosques so that Christian and Jewish passengers can also perform their prayers, daily Habertürk reported Monday. The room, next to the Muslim prayer room, is separated into two halves for Christian and Jewish travelers. On its door, on which “other religions” is written, a cross and a star have been printed. In many international airports around the world, there are several prayer rooms that can be used by all religions. Sabiha Gökçen joins them with this new development. This way, international passengers arriving to Istanbul from different religions will be able to pray next to each other with peace, tolerance and serenity. Three religion prayer rooms have previously been opened in some of Turkey’s special health institutions. However, Sabiha Gökçen became the first airport to open prayer facilities for non-Muslims among the airports in Turkey. The new stadium of the Galatasaray football team, presently under construction in Istanbul’s Seyrantepe neighborhood, also has constructed prayer rooms for all three major religions next to the changing rooms.
From Anatolia News Agency:
HÜRRİYET
-- MARMARAY TO MAKE FIRST RUN ON REPUBLIC DAY
Transportation Minister Binali Yıldırım had breakfast with Marmaray workers 42 meters below the sea. Yıldırım said, "We will open the Marmaray project to the service of residents of Istanbul for the 90th anniversary of the Republic on Oct. 29, 2013."
-- CORNCERNED CITIZENS SHOULD RAISE THEIR VOICES
Republican People's Party, or CHP, member Binnaz Toprak said, "Social changes have always come around when concerned people raised their voices."
"I have been uneasy for a long time because the AK Party has been strengthening its hold, it has been uncompromising, it has shown intolerance for the opposition, it has became more authoritarian as it gained power," said Toprak.
MİLLİYET
-- MP REACTION TO CHRISMAS DECORATIONS
Justice & Development (AK) Party parliamentarian Gönül Bekin Şahkulubey showed reaction to shopkeepers who decorated their shops in the southeastern province of Mardin, the symbol city of multiculturalism. Şahkulubey said, "Don’t be estranged from your souls while trying to modernize."
-- GENERALS ARE BEHIND SMUGGLED CIGARETTES
The police’s Smuggling and Organized Crimes Unit traced 30,000 smuggled cigarettes that entered Turkey from Doğubeyazıt and reached interesting addresses.
The smuggled cigarette parcels were delivered to some officers assigned in a garrison command in the eastern province of Ağrı and from there sent to Iğdır, Erzurum, Kars, Erzincan, Manisa and Ankara by military cargo vehicles.
SABAH
-- HERE ARE PKK'S DOCUMENTS
Some documents were found proving that the PKK terrorist organization collected money illegally from people in southeastern Turkey. The receipts include threats against businessmen: "If you do not want to be subject to any undesirable thing, you have to do what you are asked to do." Security forces seized 250 receipts amounting to 2 million TL.
-- TURKISH CANDIDATE FOR OSCE LEADERSHIP
Turkey, which has so far led many international organizations, named Ambassador Ersin Erçin as candidate for the new secretary-general of the 56-member Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou extended support to Erçin, who is currently acting as Turkey's ambassador to Brazil. There are no other candidates so far.
VATAN
-- BOMB PANIC
A flight attendant found a note reading, "There is a bomb and it is going to go off after 45 minutes" on board the Turkish Airlines (THY) plane which took off from the airport in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) at 6:30 p.m. for Istanbul. Pilot of the plane did not say anything so as not to panic 106 passengers on board the plane. But he requested landing priority and emergency help from officials at the Atatürk Airport. The plane safely landed at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport at 8:13 p.m. Fire-fighting teams and ambulances were deployed near the plane. Passengers were evacuated quickly. Security forces searched the plane, but could not find a bomb.
-- NEW TRANSFERS OF BESIKTAS IN ISTANBUL
Turkish soccer club Beşiktaş' new transfers Almeida, Simao and Fernandes have arrived in Istanbul. Some 2,000 supporters of the soccer club rushed to the airport to welcome the Portuguese players. Quaresma also arrived in Istanbul with Almeida, Simao and Fernandes.
CUMHURİYET
-- ALEVİS TO TAKE ACTION FOR EQUAL RIGHTS
The Alevi Congress will convene in Ankara on Jan. 15 and 16. The head of the Hacı Bektash Veli Foundation said the fundamental problem for the Alevi population was that they were not given the rights enjoyed by other religious groups.
-- DENIZFENERİ PROSECUTORS IN GERMANY
Ankara Public Prosecutor Nadi Türkaslan and his team, who are carrying out the Turkish leg of the Denizfeneri e.V. investigation in Germany, will examine 700 dossiers in 10 days during their stay in Frankfurt. The three prosecutors will be accompanied by a translator and an IT expert. When the statements that they will take are taken into consideration, 10 days will not be enough, officials say.
RADİKAL
-- 12.5 KM WIRE FENCE TO ENCLOSE TURKEY-GREECE BORDER
Greece is getting ready to enclose 12.5 kilometers of its land border with Turkey with barbed wire fence to prevent illegal passages.
Around 300,000 illegal migrants were reported to be living in the territories of Greece.
The barbed wire will start from Pazarkule Border Gate and continue until Oristiada and Dimetoka region.
-- BREAKFAST TABLE IN MARMARAY
Transportation Minister Binali Yıldırım had the first Sunday breakfast of 2011 42 meters below the Bosphorus.
Yıldırım said the Marmaray Project, which will unite railway lines in the European and Asian sides from Halkalı to Gebze under the Bosphorus, was gradually concluded.
Yıldırım said Marmaray would be under the service of residents of Istanbul on Oct. 29, 2013, the 90th anniversary of the Turkish Republic.
TÜRKİYE
-- MARMARAY TO BE CONCLUDED IN 2013
Transportation Minister Binali Yıldırım had breakfast with the workers of Marmaray, 42 meters under the waters of the Bosphorus.
The minister, who entered Marmaray from the station in Üsküdar, walked 900 meters.
Yıldırım said Istanbul started the countdown for Marmaray, saying people would be able to enter from Yenikapı and go out from Üsküdar by the end of February.
He said Istanbul will start to use Marmaray on Oct. 29, 2013.
-- CARDIAC AND CANCER PATIENTS TO BE TREATED IN PRIVATE HOSPITALS WITHOUT PAYING EXTRA MONEY
Turkey made another important step in health. According to a circular of the Ministry of Health, private hospitals will not demand extra money from citizens for treatment of diseases extending from cancer to cardiac diseases and from birth to intensive care.
-- CITY FOREIGNERS WANT TO SEE THE MOST
Istanbul, the intersection point of two continents, is the most favorite city of the world. U.S. citizens, who the New York Times asked where they want to see the most, said "Istanbul."
The British said "capital of Europe" while commenting on the megacity.
ZAMAN
-- HERE ARE THE SLEDGEHAMMER COUP PLAN CDS
New evidence has come to light, discrediting the claims of the daughter and son-in-law of Cetin Dogan – the number one suspect of the Sledgehammer Coup Plot – who suggested "the CDS were fabricated."
The fingerprints and handwriting on the 19 CDs which make the strongest evidence in the case show the CDs were recorded in 2003.
Civil servants Melek Üçtepe and Sivilay Erkani Bulut, who testified to a military prosecutor, admit they prepared the 19 CDs.
The two also said the user name of the CDs was their own registration number for retirement. "The CD that showed a note as K. Özel was supposed to be presented to the head of the 1st Army," Bulut noted. TÜBİTAK and the criminal investigation of the police confirm that the Sledgehammer CDs were prepared in 2003 and were not altered afterwards.
-- BEŞİKTAŞ'S THREE STARS ARRIVE
Hundreds of Beşiktaş supporters welcomed Portuguese soccer players Hugo Almeida, Simao Sabroza and Manuel Fernandes, who came to Istanbul on the private jet of Beşiktaş President Yıldırım Demirören. The crowd caused a stampede at the Atatürk Airport and the glass gates were broken.
YENİ ŞAFAK
-- WE ARE READY FOR EU IN 2014
State Minister & chief negotiator for EU talks Egemen Bağış said that Turkey would be ready to become a full member of the EU by the end of 2013. "The EU cannot take any political steps because of impacts of the global financial crisis. We have a national program. And we will be ready to become a full member of the EU in 2014. What is important for us for the time being is to catch the Union's standards," he said.
-- BOMB PANIC
Flight attendants found a note reading, "There is a bomb and it is going to go off after 45 minutes" on board a Turkish Airlines (THY) plane flying from the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) to Istanbul. The plane safely landed at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport and passengers were evacuated. Security forces searched the plane, but could not find a bomb.
-- DESIRE FOR ISTANBUL
The New York Times daily asked its readers where they wanted to travel the most in 2010. Most of its readers chose Istanbul. Istanbul was followed by Colombia, Seoul, Costa Rica and New York.
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