This poor eight-year-old boy with skin cancer and tumours covering most of his face leaving him almost blind in one eye is to receive specialist care after the Turkish authorities vowed to help. Salih, 8, the youngest of three children, was diagnosed with a mass over his left eye when…
A Turkish man who did not have a licence to drive a lorry loaded with building supplies when it rolled backwards and crushed this young woman to death has said he wished it had killed him. Ilhami Bekiroglu, 36, said the company that employed him to drive the lorry had…
This beautiful young cycling champion has reportedly been killed on the road while training by a lorry driver who failed to see her. Zeynep Aslan, 32, was a female cyclist for the Karsiyaka Municipality Youth and Sports Club Cycling Team in the Turkish province of Izmir. She was reportedly killed…
This is the moment Turkish police divers find the ship's cook still alive in a capsised vessel in an accident that claimed the lives of two of his colleagues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2I24-Izx74&feature=youtu.be @yerlikayaali34 via @sahilguvkom/Newsflash The incident took place off the coast of Samatya in the district of Fatih in the north-western…
A 59-year-old Turkish doctor who battled to save lives throughout the coronavirus pandemic has died from a COVID-19 infection just three days before he was due to retire. A ceremony was held for Doctor Mehmet Atilla Baran at the Alsancak State Hospital in the Turkish province of Izmir where he…