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WITH A PUMP-RIFLE
The hooligan killed his nephew and
wounded 10 people
During the wedding breakfast in Adana, the
hooligan who got carried away, wanted to shoot in the air with his pump-riffle.
The hooligan, who winded down the bullet when the riffle misfired, has
killed his 11 year old nephew and injured 10 people.
During this wedding held in the street yesterday night in Adana, a six
year old boy Salman Eren, who has been hit in the head, lost his life
despite all interventions when 11 other people have been wounded while
the firing with a pump-riffle started. It has been determined that the
hooligan is Nezir Elçiçek (35), the boy’s uncle. Elçiçek has been
arrested while the treatment of the other 10 injured is continuing in
hospitals.
The event took place at 10:00 pm yesterday night in Anadolu Mahallesi
844 Sokak. Nezir Elçiçek, who is in a carpet business, has participated
to the wedding of his aunt’s husband brother Recep Eren held in the
street. While the bride’s and the groom’s relatives were having fun,
Elçiçek took his own pump-riffle and went out to the third floor of the
wedding-ceremony hall. According to the claim, the riffle has misfired
while the accused wanted to open fire. Nezih Elçiçek wanted to control
the riffle after winding down the barrel. In the meantime, when the
riffle has caught fire successively, Sevgi Bağıran (24), Meyrem Eren
(4), Salih Bağıran (37), Ahmet Oğuz (34), Hasan Tutal (30), Salman Eren
(6), Süheyla Eren (28), Rahim Bağıran (38), Saniye Erdemci (43), Zekiye
Eren (44), who were having fun and one person who hasn’t been identified
yet, have been wounded in different parts of their body. Salman Eren,
whose situation is serious among the other injured who have been taken
under treatment in different hospitals in Adana, has lost his life in
the Public Hospital. The accused Nezir Elçicek who caused the death of
his nephew and the injury of 10 people has been caught and detained.
While the treatments of the other injured are continuing in hospitals,
investigation concerning the event is continuing.
Neşet Karadağ - Yakup Yılmaz
(radikal.com.tr, June 22th 2008)
Football fans back to work: 5 wounded
The enthusiasm of the National Team’s
victory against Czech Republic has been clouded by guns. While the
football fans were showing their joy by weapon, luckily nobody died but
5 people were wounded.
The 3-2 victory of the National Team against Czech Republic has been
welcomed by enthusiasm. There were also people showing their joy by
weapon among the citizens who were seized with enthusiasm and who took
to the streets. The shots which have been heard intensively notably in
Ankara and Istanbul have scared everybody. The joy after the win has
displayed in a sense a new dimension of armaments in Turkey.
The fact that the National Team has advanced to quarter-final beating
the Czech Republic 3-2 in Euro 2008 tournament has been welcomed
enthusiastically. But right after the game, the enthusiasm, which has
spilled to the streets, has left its place to stray bullets. The fact
that some citizens who were seized with the national team’s victory
enthusiasm showed their joy by weapon has caused the panic of lot of
citizens and woke them up. Turkey was lucky as much in the game as in
celebrations by weapon after the game. Luckily there wasn’t any death in
the celebrations where handguns and rifles were fired but five people
were wounded.
5 people were wounded
Istanbul: Nesrin Kaşıkçı (34) who was coming back home by foot in
Hürriyet Mahallesi İnanır Sokak late in the evening in Kartal from a
family visit that she went with her husband and 4 children has been
wounded due to a stray bullet which has hit her left leg and has been
hospitalized in Kartal Dr.Lütfi Kırdat Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi.
Adana: İbrahim Ak a 68 years old man who participated to celebrations
after the game has been wounded due to a stray bullet which has hit his
left foot. The bullet went inside its foot and went out. He has been
discharged after its treatment in Adana Devlet Hastanesi.
Remzi Doğan, a 16 years old boy, who was watching the joy demonstrations
after the game on the roof of its house in Mithatpaşa Mahallesi has been
wounded due to drop shots fired with a shotgun to his left hand. He has
been taken to Çukurova Devlet Hastanesi in Doğan and has been treated.
Bursa: One person almost died. A stray bullet has skinned Hüseyin
Güneş’s nape while he was talking with his girlfriend in a call box.
Hüseyin Güneş who was wounded has been treated in the hospital. It has
been indicated that if the bullet had deviated 1 cm, Hüseyin Güneş, who
has been discharged after a first medical attention, would have died.
17 of the stray bullets fired in the town have hit the windows of houses,
one hit the Theft Office of the Police Department in the third floor,
and another one hit the police vehicle’s siren patrolling in the area.
Samsun: Tanel Yıldız,a 23 years old man, has been wounded during the
celebrations. Tanel Yıldız has been brought to Samsun Mehmet Aydın
Devlet Hastanesi by his family wounded in the chest,then after a medical
attention, the bullet cartridge in his chest has been taken out. He has
been discharged after a treatment.
In the last ten years, 30 people died due to fires opened after a game.
Ayhan Akcan, a member of the Executive Board of Umut Foundation founded
aimed at “individual disarmament”, has said that in the last ten years
about 30 people have died in joy demonstrations with weapon after
important victories in Turkey. Akcan, who has underlined that
considering this kind of demonstrations as a cultural characteristic is
wrong, has defended that the important point here is the “authority gap”.
Akcan, who noted that the State’s concerned institutions, don’t step in,
has said:
“We don’t know how to be happy without using guns”
“Neither the gendarmerie neither the police neither the prosecutor nor
the judge step in while it is fired to residential areas, moreover they
even themselves also fire a gun. Demonstrating its joy indirectly by
weapon is considered normal because it is viewed as a cultural
characteristic. There is an opposite situation here. It is a crime in
the law but there is a joy in this case and this joy is allowed to be
shown by firing. We don’t know how to be happy without shouting, without
bothering the others and without weapons”.
Akcan , who has reminded that about 30 people have died due to this
reason in the last ten years, has called attention to the rise of the
number of death up to 700 people when the open-air amusements like
marriages are taken into consideration. “In this kind of events
generally people who kill each other are member of the same family.
That’s why it doesn’t pass to court often. They resolve it within
themselves”, Akcan said.
5 million people walk around with arms without a license
Akcan has noted that there are 7 million individual weapons in Turkey
and that only 2 million is with a license. Akcan , who indicated that it
means that guns are owned in one out of three houses or in one out of
two adult men, has said: “ People arm themselves generally in the age of
38 to 40. As many as 3,000 people die every year because of guns, 9
million are wounded. Only 17 percent of these are realized with licensed
arms. Guns are used in half of the murders and are the second choice in
suicides”.
(radikal.com, June 16th 2008)
WITH A GUN
Football fan has hit one more time
In Kartal, a stray bullet fired by an
unknown football fan, has hit a 33 years old one child mother Nesrin
Kaşıkçı who turned back from a family visit. The unlucky lady, who
learned that she may be disabled in case the bullet was removed, revolts
against the event and wants the football fan to be found. “My son was
next to me, the bullet could have hit him. We could have died”, she said.
The event happened last midnight in Hürriyet Mahallesi. 33 years old
women Nesrin Kaşıkçı who was turning back from her mother-in-law visit
with her husband and children has been came under the bullet fired by a
group of young people which have been designated to celebrate Turkey’s
victory. The woman who understood she was shot after seeing the blood on
her leg has been brought to Kartal Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi.
The women victim of stray bullet has been treated and discharged from
hospital in the morning. Nesrin Kaşıkçı, who has noted that she started
to hear the shots when they were turning back from a visit after the
match, has said: “We went to the street with my son, then suddenly I
felt a heating in my leg. İ saw the blood on my leg and understood that
I was shot. İ fell down and felt faint”, she said. The woman who
affirmed that the ambulance didn’t come for 45 minutes has said that she
was taken to the hospital by her husband’s friends. “The doctors have
said that the bullet is stuck in my leg and that in case it is taken out,
I may be disabled”, she said.
“Don’t fire anymore”
Nesrin Kaşıkçı who has stressed that her son was with her during the
event has said “My son could have been hit. The bullet could have hit me
somewhere else, I could also die. We don’t have life safety anymore. We
also were happy but this kind of thing is unacceptable.
Tekin Kaşıkçı, who was shocked in face of this event which has happened
to his wife, has said that everybody has started to fire with weapons
and that people doesn’t have any respect to people lives anymore. “They
should not fire bullet to innocent people. The same thing can happen to
their family next time. The authorities must do something, my wife could
have died”, he said.
Their little son Cenk who do not dismiss the moment his mother has been
hit from his mind has hugged his mother and has cried “Do not fire
anymore” to his elders. It has been indicated that the family with 4
children is in financial difficulties and that they hardly continue
their life .It has also been noted that Nesrin Kaşıkçı has found a new
job after a long time and has started to work there since 1 week.
The police are continuing their investigation about the event.
Galip Eraydın / İstanbul DHA
(hurriyet.com.tr, June 16th 2008)
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