Habertürk
-- Man deceives in TV show
Fatih Ş. allegedly forced a girlfriend he met on set at a TV matchmaking show to work in one a cheap night club, daily Habertürk reported Thursday.
Fatih Ş. and Sıdıka U. reportedly met on the TV show “İzdivaç” (“Marriage”), in which single people meet each other in order to find the best candidate to marry.
Following the program, Fatih Ş. allegedly invited Sıdıka U. to the northwestern province of Bursa, where she eventually moved.
However, after only one day Sıdıka U. went to the police station to file a complaint about Fatih Ş., claiming that he forced her to work at a “pavyon,” a cheap bar of dubious reputation.
The Bursa vice-squad detained Fatih Ş. before sending him to court.
Sıdıka U. said Fatih Ş. persuaded her to have sex with him and work in the bar by telling her they were going to marry. The Bursa Prosecutor, following an investigation, opened a case at Bursa Fourth High Criminal Court. The prosecution is asking that Fatih Ş. be sentenced to between 3 and 15 years in prison.
Fatih Ş. has allegedly appeared on many such TV programs in order deceive other women.
Zaman
-- Bulldozers attracting Konya women
After getting used to seeing women bus and taxi drivers, five women from Turkey’s Central Anatolian Konya province signed up for construction equipment utilization course to which generally men show interest, daily Zaman reported Thursday. “This is a tough, yet enjoyable job. My husband also motivated me to participate in this course. When I complete it, I will be the first female construction equipment operator of Turkey,” said Nuran Deveci, saying there were role models in foreign countries. Because construction equipment operators can earn higher salaries, 178 people, five of whom are women, applied for the Safir Construction Equipment Usage Course, which trains people on scoops, caterpillars and bulldozers. “Women who believe in gender equality got into this sector. Some of them are working in the shoe sector, some of them are business women. It should not be forgotten that women are in life’s every field now,” said Hümeyra Terzi. On the other hand, some male candidates are complaining that women are taking their jobs. “Even some male course takers said in a humorous tone that after women got involved with the sector that they lost their jobs,” said Terzi. The course manager Ahmet Beyaz, who was surprised at the women’s interest, said they would like to accomplish a first in Turkey by training women candidates.
Vatan
-- Family rescinds organ donation
A family who donated the organs of their son to medical science changed their minds after learning that his funeral would be delayed due to the donation operations, daily Vatan reported Thursday. Murat Karadeniz had a brain hemorrhage when a vehicle hit him as he left his car in the northwestern province of Çanakkale. Karadeniz remained in the hospital for a week before being pronounced brain dead. Doctor Azem Ülkü, the organ transplantation coordinator for Çanakkale, convinced Karadeniz’s parents to donate his organs. The family accepted the offer when they learned that Karadeniz’s organs would save the lives of five different people. The family was promised that they could have the body on Jan. 5 for the funeral, but when one of the organ recipient’s surgeries was delayed due to a problem, the family was informed that the body could not be delivered at that date. Although the surgeon was just beginning to take the organs, the family revoked their permission, saying that they had organized the funeral for Jan. 5 and all their relatives were assembled for that day. Ülkü said he was not heartbroken by the family and did not blame them for anything. “I wish to find health for these five patients by other means. If the transplants had happened, the lives of these five would be different,” Ülkü said.
Sabah
-- Request to rent harem angers Topkapı director
A group of foreigners have angered the museum head with their request to rent out the harem quarters of the Topkapı Palace Museum, the daily Sabah reported Thursday.
Professor İlber Ortaylı, the museum head, received an official request from a group of foreigners including U.S. citizens to rent the harem quarters, as though it were a hotel room. Ortaylı, speaking to the daily Sabah, said he got really angry and answered the request by saying, “You are uneducated people.” Ortaylı said the request had no manners so he answered in the same way.
“The harem is a private place. Such a request should not be made for the most important area of this museum.” He said no part of the Topkapı Palace is for rent, as it should be with a place of museum status. “How can those people come here with such a request? Would there be accommodation at the Kremlin [or] the Louvre?”
Ortaylı said non-Americans have also made similar requests in the past. “The important thing is, who is behind these people? Who guides them to do this?” There had been reports in the Turkish press recently of a crisis of authority between Ortaylı and Topkapı Museum Manager Yusuf Benli. Ortaylı was asked whether it was true that the crisis had started with this request, but he declined to confirm this. Sabah reported that Benli did not answer their calls asking the same question.
From Anatolia News Agency:
HÜRRİYET
-- ARMENIAN RESOLUTION NOT TO COME ONTO AGENDA FOR TWO YEARS
The U.S. Congress began its new two-year legislative term with new lawmakers on Wednesday. John Boehner was elected the new speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives as the Republican Party got the majority at the House. Virginia Foxx, a person close to Boehner, spoke to Hürriyet daily newspaper. Foxx, whose son-in-law is a Turk and who has two grandchildren named Rana and Kenan, said the Armenian resolution on the incidents of 1915 would not be brought to the U.S. Congress for two years. Foxx had backed Turkey during "genocide resolution" discussions at the end of last year.
-- WHY DID WE RELEASE THEM?
Mahmut Acar, the head of the criminal department of the Supreme Court of Appeals that released the suspects of the Hizbullah case, said, "We implemented the law. They will come and sign a document every day. They have been banned from traveling abroad." Acar said, "The file came from the chief prosecutor's office on October 26. The notification takes so much time. We will send notification to the suspect's new lawyers. The Hizbullah case was overturned once or twice, laws are changing and these changes are applied to cases. It takes one or two years to send the case back to the local court and the local court's sending it back to us. If notifications are made, the hearing will be on Jan. 26."
MİLLİYET
-- TURKEY, THE SOFT POWER IN IRAQ
The New York Times issued an important article on Turkey's Iraq policy. The article said that Turkey, which was currently living its most active time in Iraq since the Ottoman era, managed to open all the doors using "soft power". The piece also noted that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who gave Turkish politics a whole new direction, shaped the policy in Iraq as well.
-- ‘PASSENGER WITH BOMB’ CAUSES PANIC ON BOARD
Passengers of a Turkish Airlines (THY) plane bound from Oslo to Istanbul panicked when Cuma Yaşar, a mentally-handicapped passenger wearing a snow mask, wanted to enter the cockpit claiming that he was carrying a bomb. Yaşar was taken down by two passengers one of whom was a Swedish citizen. Police found an ID for the handicapped on Yaşar who was later taken into custody.
SABAH
-- VILLAGERS AT TURKISH-GREEK BORDER AGAINST WALL
Most Turkish villagers living at the Turkish-Greek border are against Greek plans to erect a wall at the border in order to prevent the entry of illegal migrants into Greece. Turkish villagers said that at a time when walls were going down in the world, it would be unacceptable to see a wall at the Turkish-Greek border.
-- EARLY RESERVATIONS FOR 2011 BEGIN
Early reservations in the Turkish tourism sector in 2011 began. The early reservation campaign brings down the prices of hotel rooms by up to 50 percent.
VATAN
-- FIELD OF DEAD BODIES IN BİTLİS
Officials launched an excavation in a field in Mutki town of the eastern province of Bitlis upon demands of relatives of some missing people, and bones of 12 people were found in the excavations. Some claimed that nine people who came to Mutki from Güroymak town to join the terrorist organization PKK and three other PKK members were killed as security forces opened fire on them in 1999, and that they were buried altogether. Upon this claim, a search team, accompanied by a prosecutor, launched the excavations under tight security measures. The bones will be sent to the Forensic Medical Institute.
-- FAILING JUSTICE!
The fact is that Hizbullah's top member, who is accused of massacre, and the mafia bosses were released one after the other because the Supreme Court of Appeals can only spend six minutes on every file. Suspects have started to be released as a regulation limiting detention periods entered into force. Now eyes have been turned on the "slowly functioning" justice.
Lower courts sent 269,000 files to the criminal departments of the Supreme Court of Appeals last year. The total files at the departments exceeded 573,000 for the first time. Now, 84 judges are working in 11 criminal departments. They can only decide on 206,000 files a year. Thus 366,000 files were transferred to this year. The Supreme Court of Appeals worked for 218 days last year, i.e. the criminal department decided on 947 files every day. When the fact that the court is working eight hours a day is taken into consideration, the criminal departments can only spend six minutes on each file.
CUMHURİYET
-- BOMB PANIC IN TURKISH AIRLINES PASSENGER JET
A passenger in a Turkish Airlines (THY) jet on way to Istanbul from Oslo caused panic after he claimed that he had a bomb in his hand. The mentally ill passenger, Cuma Yaşar, was taken down by two passengers. THY jet was able to land at Atatürk International Airport in Istanbul safely.
-- PRESIDENT GÜL TO RECEIVE STUDENTS
Turkish President Abdullah Gül will receive members of student councils from 11 Ankara universities on Thursday. Students from Ankara, Atılım, Başkent, Bilkent, Çankaya, Gazi, Hacettepe, ODTÜ, TOBB ETU, Turgut Özal and Ufuk universities will be Gül's guests today.
RADİKAL
-- HOW MANY TIMES DOES A GRASSHOPPER HOP?
Ali Tamkoşar killed a total of six people in 12 years. He got out of prison thanks to "Özal and Rahsan amnesties" for his first two murders. As for his latest massacre that cost the lives of four people from the same family, Tamkoşar was released with the latest amendment in the Criminal Procedure Law. He is now among us.
-- ARMY WITH 50,000 SOLDIERS FOR TURKEY'S BORDERS
Turkish Interior Minister Beşir Atalay said that a 50,000-soldier army, whose only task and expertise would be border security, would be formed within the framework of Turkey's EU adhesion process. During a gathering with reporters at the Turkish parliament yesterday, Atalay said the new forces would be in duty starting from 2014 at the earliest.
TÜRKİYE
-- RELEASED CONSCIOUSLY
Suspects of terrorist acts and gang members whose cases have not been concluded yet benefited from the law limiting detention periods. The slowly operating judicial system served the benefits of Hizbullah and the mafia. Suspects that were members of terrorist groups, mafia and gangs, as well as 283 people charged with murder, were released thanks to Article 102 of the Criminal Procedure Law.
-- İBRAHİM TATLISES KNOCKS DOWN RAMBO IN IRAQ
U.S. newspapers wrote that Turkish culture has invaded Iraq. The papers said Arabic companies now use Turkish singer İbrahim Tatlıses in their commercials, instead of U.S. actor Sylvester Stallone.
International Herald Tribune wrote that "Turkey, which had gone back to the glorious days of the Ottoman period, had invaded Iraq." The paper said an Arabic firm, which constructed thousands of villas in the country, had chosen Tatlıses over Stallone and U.S. actress Angelina Jolie to play a part in its advertisement.
ZAMAN
-- 43 ORGANIZED INDUSTRIAL ZONES ON WAY
Turkey's Industrial Strategy Document, covering the period 2011-2014, was made public by Industry and Trade Minister Nihat Ergun on Wednesday. According to the document, 43 new organized industrial zones would be established in Turkey and Turkey would become the production center of Eurasia. The document includes 72 action plans.
-- GOOD NEWS IN TEXTILE SECTOR, 200,000 PEOPLE RETURN TO JOBS
After a sharp decline in orders in the past two years due to the global economic crisis, companies in the Turkish textile and ready-made clothing sectors are smiling. Recent orders received have helped 200,000 people return back to their jobs in the textile and ready-made clothing sectors of Turkey.
YENİ ŞAFAK
-- IF SUPREME COURT WANTED, 953 CASES WOULD BE OVER
Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin said those who used to say that the "detention period was too long" had changed their stance, which he defined as a double standard. Ergin also referred to the Supreme Court of Appeals, which says "we have a huge work load", and asked, "cannot the Supreme Court of Appeals that makes 800,000 decisions a year, look into a file regarding 953 people for six years?"
-- METU BATTLE
Security forces pressure washed and hurled pepper spray at a group of students at the Middle East Technical University (METU) after the group attacked them with stones and bars. Three police officers and some journalists were wounded in the clash. Students reacted to Çetin Soysal, a lawmaker from the Republican People's Party (CHP) who wanted to speak to students.
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