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Tales from the Turkish Press
INCREDIBLE ESCAPE By cutting the cell bars with iron shears, Armenian swindler Emili Parapoziam escaped from the Istanbul Security Directorate where he was being kept for deportation. During the count in the detention room which is monitored 24 hours a day with surveillance cameras, officials knew about escape of Parapoziam who cut the bars with iron shears and jumped down an area three meters beneath and later exited the building like a visitor. There were five Chechens in the same room who have links to al-Qaeda. Police investigate how he managed to escape and the iron shears was brought in.
SINEM IS VICTIM OF MINI-SKIRT Turkish girls have always been facing problems in schools in Germany and France due to Islamic-style headscarf (turban). However, this time a Turkish girl is at logger-heads with a school in England due to her mini-skirt. Four girls between 12-15 years old including Turkish girl Sinem Zelzele were dismissed from school with the pretext that their mini-skirts were seducible. Her mother Pembe Zelzele said, ''British teachers took racist decision.''
AL QAEDA ALERT AT AIRPORTS ''Yellow alert'' is activated at airports when a very important intelligence about Al Qaeda's activities against planes has reached to Ankara. Yellow alert is one step lower than red alert. INCIRLIK INSISTENCE OF U.S. It was reported that Bush administration demanded ''maximum flexibility'' which would not require case-by-case political decision on every operation for F-16 fleets which it wanted to deploy at the Incirlik air-base. When Ankara said it was impossible to accept such a demand, Washington gave the start for a new plan which the Turkish side can accept.
ANKARA'S COMPLAINT: IRAQ Ankara feels uneasy: Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi does not want to come to Turkey. A request (by Turkey) to open a consulate general in Mosul was rejected. There are problems in Kirkuk.
TURKISH DOCTOR TO BEAM The Galileo Avionica, an Italian military plane and civil and military satellite firm, signed an agreement with Turkish scientist Seckiner Gorgun. Gorgun said that Italians would establish a laboratory for him. Gorgun's most important project is a ''beam'' system similar to the ''Star Trek'' TV-serial. He said that they would firstly beam mice.
Posted by: Steve 2004-07-27 |
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