Tourists steer clear of Erdogan's 'Advanced Islamist' Turkish state after bombings & Russia clash. (WSJ).
A string of terrorist attacks blamed on Islamic State or Kurdish militants, on top of a diplomatic feud with Russia, are battering Turkey’s vibrant tourism industry, which had been one of the few bright spots in a slowing economy.
Bookings for this summer are down 40% from last year, and hotel occupancy rates have plunged more than half, according to industry figures.Hundreds of hotels, bed-and-breakfasts, and boutique resorts have been put up for sale.
And there is no end in sight to the turmoil. Hmmm....If EU parliamentarians had any brains & Guts they would keep Erdogan's Turkey out of Europe. Read the full story here.
Istanbul terrorist bomber said to have targeted Israeli group. (TOI).
The suspected Islamic State bomber who killed three Israelis in
Saturday’s bombing in Istanbul followed the tour group from their hotel
to the restaurant, and waited outside for them before detonating his
explosives, reports said Monday.
The reports, published in the Turkish media, appeared to contradict
earlier assessments that the bombing didn’t deliberately target the
Israeli tour group. The later reports, however, were unsourced and
couldn’t be independently verified.
Turkish police on Sunday identified the bomber as Mehmet Ozturk, 23, an
Islamic State member from Gaziantep province who spent two years in
Syria before returning to Turkey illegally.
The T24 news site reported that Ozturk followed the tour group from
their hotel in the Besiktas neighborhood of Istanbul, located near
Taksim Square, to the restaurant on Istiklal Avenue where they ate
breakfast on Saturday morning. When the group exited, the bomber blew
himself up, the report said.
Ozturk reportedly stayed at a hotel on Barbaros Boulevard in Besiktas
the night before the attack and received assistance from an unknown
person, the Hurriyet newspaper reported.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a press conference Saturday
evening that Israel was “trying to get intelligence on whether the
terror attack was targeted against Israelis,” but the prevailing
assessment in the days immediately following the bombing was that it was
merely incidental that Israelis were at the epicenter of the blast.
“We don’t have any confirmation that the attack targeted Israelis,” he told reporters. Hmmm......Who informed him that there was a Jewish group staying at that particular hotel? Read the full story here.
Israel recommends citizens to avoid visiting Turkey saying there is a continuing threat against Israel and Jewish targets there. (JP)
A day after the deadly blast in Istanbul that killed three Israelis, the Counter-terrorism Bureau in the Prime Minister's Office called on Israelis to avoid visiting the country all together.
The
new advisory is a more stringent one than the one that has been in
place since August 2014, advising Israelis to refrain only from
unnecessary travel to Turkey, saying there is a continuing threat
against Israel and Jewish targets there.
The
new advisory reads as follows: “Due to a worsening in the number of
attacks in Turkey in tourist areas and crowded places, and focusing on
the attack in central Istanbul (19.3.16) -- during which Israeli
citizens were killed and wounded -- and amid a concern about future
attacks, the counter-terrorism bureau is making more stringent the
existing travel advisory to the country and recommends avoiding visiting
Turkey.”
The advisory was upgraded from a Level 4 warning of the threat of
potential attacks, to a Level 3 warning of the threat of concrete
attacks. Hmmm.....When will the other countries follow their lead? Will they wait till their own people get killed?
#Turkey: #ISIL bomber followed #Israel tourist group from the moment they left their hotel in Beşiktaş district, trailed them to Istiklal.
IDF Air Force jet carrying Jewish Istanbul bomb victims returns to Israel. (TOI).
The bodies of three Israelis killed in a suicide bombing in Istanbul on
Saturday were loaded on to an IDF airplane Sunday afternoon and taken to
Israel, along with several wounded in the attack.
The victims were identified as Yonathan Suher, 40, Simha Dimri, 60, and
Avraham Goldman, 69. Suher and Goldman were also named as United States
citizens by the State Department.
Eleven more Israelis were hurt in the bombing
on Istiklal Caddesi, a bustling two-kilometer-long pedestrian street
usually thronged with shoppers, tourists and buskers.
Turkish medical
officials said that among the Israeli wounded, two were in critical
condition, two were in moderate condition and six were lightly injured.
The condition of one more injured Israeli was not immediately clear.
Five wounded were transported to Israel on the IDF plane on Sunday, including one woman who was in critical condition.
“Israeli diplomats in Turkey worked all night
to prepare the ground for the arrival of the IDF teams, treat the
wounded, and coordinate with the authorities in Turkey,” the Israeli
Foreign Ministry said in a statement Sunday morning.
Five of the Israelis who were lightly wounded
in the attack were already returned to Israel in two flights overnight
Sunday. The IDF teams that arrived in Istanbul Sunday brought back the
remaining Israelis who were injured in the attack. The Israeli Air Force
plane left Istanbul on Sunday afternoon and landed in Israel several
hours later.
The Israeli victims were part of a 14-member group on a culinary tour of Turkey.
The Magen David Adom rescue service said the
return of the seriously injured Israelis was delayed in order to enable
them to recover enough to travel. Hmmm.....If Europe allows free visa for Turks these bombings will become part of their daily life. Read the full story here.
36 injured in Istanbul suicide bomb attack says Health Minister, 12 foreigners among them. (TM).
In a statement on Saturday, after the attack Müezzinoğlu said that 12
of the injured are foreign nationals. "Of the 36 injured, seven are in
serious condition. Four of those injured have been taken into surgery"
he said speaking to reporters.
"I hope there are no new losses," Müezzinoğlu said.
A media gag order has been issued by the Radio and Television Supreme
Council (RTÜK) on the attack took place on Balo Street in front of the
Beyoğlu District Governorship building, off İstiklal Avenue, one of
İstanbul's busiest streets. Turkish media have reported that the bomber
sett of the explosives among a tourist group.Three of the injured are
reported to be Israeli tourists.
According to preliminary inspections the explosion is reported to
have been the result of a suicide bomber. Police have sealed the street
from both sides. No vehicles apart from police vehicles or ambulances
are being allowed near the scene of the bombing.
Doğan News Agency reported that 10 of the injured, two of whom are in
critical condition, have been taken to Şişli Etfal Hospital.
The attack comes days after Germany’s foreign minister said his
country closed its two main diplomatic buildings and two German schools
in Turkey over security threats.
"Yesterday evening, some very concrete indications - to be taken very
seriously - reached our security services, saying that terror attacks
against German institutions within Turkey were being prepared," Deutsche
Welle quoted German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier as saying
on Thursday.
Steinmeier also said that he had ordered German institutions in
Turkey to close their doors, "because protecting German citizens and the
people working and learning in these establishments must now take
precedence."
The German embassy in Ankara, consulate in Istanbul, and two German
schools - one in each city - were shut as a result, Steinmeier further
said, adding that he had reached the decision overnight. Read the full story here.
3 #Israel citizens (Simha Simon Demri, Yonathan Suher, Avraham Goldman) & 1 #Iran national Ali Reza Razmkhah killed in #Turkey bombing.
Friends suspect murder: ex BBC journo found hanged in Turkish airport
Sutton, 50, was a former producer and broadcaster with the BBC in London and held various positions over the years with humanitarian organizations and the UN, according to her professional profile on LinkedIn. She was studying for a PhD at the Australian National University on media in war-torn countries at the time of her death, focusing on Iraq and Afghanistan.
She was appointed to the IWPR in Iraq in June following the death of the previous director, Ammar Al Shahbander, who was killed in a car bombing in Baghdad, the organization said.
Borden said Sutton had taken over an "extraordinary burden" from a colleague that had been killed. He said there is no reason to think that the deaths are related.
"She had toys in her bag for the children of staff [in Iraq]," he said.
"The profile doesn't strike me as right," he added. "I can't get my head around it."
Video - footage of Afro-American Citizen Tracey Lynn Brown killed by Turkish Police at Istanbul Airport.
Video footage showing the events leading to the death of US citizen Tracey Lynn Brown at Istanbul Atatürk Airport in 2013, when she suffocated due to police officers applying too much pressure on her while holding her on the ground, has been released.
Brown, who arrived at the airport on April 4, 2013, from Tashkent and was to travel to Chicago, was waiting in the international arrivals terminal. According to the footage, Brown went into a room belonging to the department of passport control at 9:48 pm, and about four minutes later she was dragged out of the room by the police. Brown, who left the scene after the incident, returned after six hours.
The footage showed the police putting handcuffs on her and then putting her in a room. After a few minutes, Brown somehow frees herself of the handcuffs and the police officers knock her to the ground, handcuffing her from behind and exerting pressure on her with their legs and arms for about 17 minutes. A doctor is seen arriving and giving the woman a sedative without examining her. The police officers, who release the pressure on the woman after the doctor leaves the room, realize the woman is not breathing and call the doctor back. The doctor administers CPR for seven minutes and then sends her to a hospital.
According to the reports in Turkish media, the woman died on April 18, 2013, at the hospital and the forensic report confirmed that she died due to the intense pressure put on her chest and neck.
The Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor's Office filed a criminal complaint against the 12 police officers and the doctor, Mesut Ö., who all face jail time of 12 years to 16 years. The fourth hearing of the case will be in October.
In their statements, the police officers argued that when the woman first entered the transfer room she angrily asked about her daughter and was belligerent to them. The woman is seen being dragged on the ground by the police officers four minutes after she entered the room in the video footage.
According to the video footage, the woman is seen running into the room six hours after her first entry. The police officers claimed in their statements that the woman was holding a pair of scissors and that she wounded one of the officers on his hand while she scattered documents from the desk to the floor. In the footage, the police are seen handcuffing the woman to a chair. However, she manages to get rid of the handcuffs. Then, a group of police officers knock the woman to the ground and apply pressure to her back, hands, feet and neck for 17 minutes, causing her to suffocate.
In the video, the doctor is seen watching the ill treatment by the police officers and not saying anything to Brown, who is unable to move and then he injects a sedative into her while she is on the ground. After the doctor has left the room when the officers noticed that she was not breathing, they called the doctor back again for treatment.
Despite the CPR applied by the doctor she did not show any signs of life. The woman was taken to the hospital. She died 14 days after the incident and a report prepared by the Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) confirmed that she died of pressure applied to her chest and neck.
The Bakırköy Prosecutor's Office requested reports for the third time from the ATK regarding the details of the incident and all three separate reports concluded that the actions of the police officers and Brown's death were linked.
The latest report, contrary to the first two ones, put blame on the doctor for failing to intervene while Brown was being held on the ground while pressure was being applied to her, an act that contradicts the rights of patients. Hmmmm......If you're planning to have a holiday in Turkey make sure not to ask info from the police in the airport.....you might regret it. Don't expect Pres Hussein Obama to react to this, his BFF Erdogan is 'untouchable'
Suspected members of the outlawed Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) have taken prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz hostage at Istanbul courthouse in connection to the case into the killing of Gezi victim Berkin Elvan.
Gunshots have been heard at the building.
A photo has been released on social media showing someone pointing a gun at the head of Kiraz against the backdrop of a flag of the organization.
According to a statement carried on halkinsesi.tv, a site that is close to the DHKP-C, the perpetrators have given authorities until 3:36 p.m. to meet the demands of the group.
The demands include a live confession by the police officers suspected of killing Elvan, the prosecution of the officers responsible in a “people’s court,” the acquittal of all people being tried for participation in solidarity rallies for Elvan, as well as other requests. Hmmmm....If i recall correctly Turkey's whistle blower warned about 'false flag operations' to pass the security bill. Read the full story here.
Armed group demands arrest of officer shooting Berkin, threatens to kill prosecutor if demand not fulfilled till 15.35 Turkey v #cnnturk
— ilhan tanir (@WashingtonPoint) March 31, 2015
Hostage takers in #BerkinElvan case demand full confession or they will shoot prosecutor in less than an hour. Request absurd,SWAT on scene.
— Piero Castellano (@PieroCastellano) March 31, 2015
As hostage situation unfolds, @hürriyet calls the prosecutor. He is 'not available now,' a man on the line says
http://t.co/8ZP4uxqceo
— Hurriyet Daily News (@HDNER) March 31, 2015
@PieroCastellano well, more like decision-dictating really; but this is a pattern, 2 months before every election in years... @MFS001
— gztrn ✌ (@Obefintlig) March 31, 2015
@diehimbeertonis Could it be that it is done to give credence to AKP and security bill? Polls are down, you never know with these folks?
— Tamer Abdelaal (@zanesfather) March 31, 2015
I don't know if DHKP-C are infiltrated by provocateurs like many say but I'm sure that even if they've an agenda, they are incurably stupid.
— Piero Castellano (@PieroCastellano) March 31, 2015
Hostage takers in #BerkinElvan case demand full confession or they will shoot prosecutor in less than an hour. Request absurd,SWAT on scene.
— Piero Castellano (@PieroCastellano) March 31, 2015
A
fresh outbreak of Ebola in a part of Sierra Leone where the virus was thought to
have been contained has raised fears of a new, uncontrolled infection chain that
could send the death toll soaring.
A
Red Cross ambulance team was sent to the remote district of Koinadugu, which had
prided itself on being the only area to have kept Ebola at bay, on Tuesday to
urgently collect 30 corpses for medical burial.
The
outbreak is a major setback for the Ebola response force and the district, which
two weeks ago remained resolved to control the spread of the virus that has
officially infected 5,338 people and claimed 1,510 lives in the
country.
Koinadugu
has been operating a self-imposed quarantine for four months, thanks to the
intervention of an expat businessman, Momah Konte, who returned from Washington
and worked with local officials and tribal chiefs to try to prevent the
spread.
The
Red Cross said an emergency burial team was making the five-hour journey from
Freetown on Tuesday to collect the bodies in the Nenie chiefdom east of the
district’s capital Kabala.
A
spokesman said that there were reports of a further 25 ill with Ebola and
another 255 being monitored after coming into contact with the dead and the
sick.
The
district, which is home to more than 260,000 people, borders on Guinea, where
the current outbreak started. It is populated by many remote villages with the
movement of traders and farmers difficult to control.
The
disease is widespread in the nearby districts of Bombali and Port Loko, where
the Ebola response has been hampered by lack of resources. There are no
treatment centres in either district.
State Dept. Doc Affirms JW’s Report on Obama Plan to Bring Foreign Ebola Patients to U.S. HT: JudicialWatch.
A shocking government document outlining the Obama administration’s
outrageous plan to admit Ebola-infected non-U.S. citizens into the United States
for treatment has surfaced, confirming a story that Judicial Watch broke almost two weeks ago.
On October 17 JW reported that the administration was actively formulating a
deal to admit foreign nationals infected with Ebola into the country for
treatment. Specifically, the goal is to bring the patients into the country
within the first days of diagnosis, according to JW’s sources. The plan includes
special waivers of laws and regulations that ban the admission of non-citizens
with a communicable disease as dangerous as Ebola.
JW received details of the initiative from high-level government sources that
also disclosed the administration was keeping the Ebola plan secret from
Congress. The sources expressed concern that the proposal is illegal; endangers
the public health and welfare; and should require the approval of Congress.
Following the initial report, JW contacted a number of government agencies that
may be involved with the backdoor plan for comment but all except one shunned multiple requests to respond. Only the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offered this curt statement through
spokeswoman Amesheia Buckner: “We have nothing for you on that.”
JW’s initial story also got Congress to get involved. Days after JW’s piece
got published, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee fired off a letter to
the secretaries of State and Homeland Security asking for details of the Ebola
scheme and whether employees of their agencies had engaged in conversations
regarding it.
“Please provide me any and all written memos or other
documentation written by employees of your Departments regarding the
formulation of a plan to allow non-U.S. citizens infected with Ebola to enter
the U.S. to receive medical treatment,” says the letter signed by the
committee’s chair, Bob Goodlatte of Virginia.
This week several media outlets have confirmed JW’s story, attributing the
information to an unclassified State Department report.
It spells out a plan to
rush foreigners into the U.S. for Ebola treatment, according to a British newspaper that links the actual four-page document. It
would cost $300,000 to treat each patient and another $200,000 for
transportation, the State Department memo shows.
The newspaper cites the White
House Press Secretary issuing a “qualified denial” this week, saying that it
hasn’t happened so far and that he doesn’t know of any plans to do it. “Despite
the existence of a written plan, the State Department denies that it has any
intention of bringing Ebola-infected noncitizens to the U.S. for treatment,” the
news article points out. Read the full story here.
Study: Ebola Can Survive On Surfaces For 50 Days. (DailyMail).
The number of confirmed Ebola cases passed the 10,000 mark over the weekend, despite efforts to curb its spread. And while the disease typically dies on surfaces within hours, research has discovered it can survive for more than seven weeks under certain conditions.
During tests, the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) found that the Zaire strain will live on samples stored on glass at low temperatures for as long as 50 days.
The tests were initially carried out by researchers from DSTL before the current outbreak, in 2010, but the strain investigated is one of five that is still infecting people globally.
Ebola was discovered in 1976 and is a member of the Filoviridae family.
HOW LONG DOES EBOLA SURVIVE? For their 2010 paper, ‘The survival of filoviruses in liquids, on solid substrates and in a dynamic aerosol’, the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) tested two particular filoviruses on a variety of surfaces.
These were the Lake Victoria marburgvirus (Marv), and Zaire ebolavirus (Zebov). Each was placed into guinea pig tissue samples and tested for their ability to survive in different liquids and on different surfaces at different temperatures, over a 50-day period.
When stored at 4° (39°F), by day 26, viruses from three of the samples were successfully extracted; Zebov on the glass sample, and Marv on both glass and plastic.
By day 50, the only sample from which the virus could be recovered was the Zebov from tissue on glass.
‘This study has demonstrated that filoviruses are able to survive and remain infectious, for extended periods when suspended within liquid and dried onto surfaces,’ explained the researchers.
‘Data from this study extend the knowledge on the survival of filoviruses under different conditions and provide a basis with which to inform risk assessments and manage exposure.’
The researchers do stress that these tests were carried out in a controlled lab environment, and not in the real world, but published their findings to highlight the survival rates.
Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its Ebola guidelines following the rise in infections.
Ebola (pictured) was discovered in 1976 and is a member of the Filoviridae family.
This family includes the Zaire ebolavirus (Zebov), which was first identified in 1976 and is the most virulent; Sudan ebolavirus, (Sebov); Tai Forest ebolavirus; Ebola-Reston (Rebov), and Bundibugyo ebolavirus (Bebov)
The centre explained that Ebola is not spread through the air, water, or food and a person infected with Ebola can’t spread the disease until symptoms appear.
The time from exposure to when signs or symptoms of the disease appear, known as the incubation period, is two to 21 days, but the average time is eight to 10 days. Read more: THE DAILY MAIL Hmmm......You know those baggage handlers in little Belgium refusing to unload African planes......Not so stupid after all !
One
of the scientists who discovered Ebola has warned that China is under threat
from the deadly virus because of the huge number of Chinese workers in
Africa.
Professor
Peter Piot also made the grim prediction that Ebola would claim thousands more
lives in the months ahead.
"It
will get worse for a while, and then hopefully it will get better when people
are isolated," said Piot, who is in Hong Kong for a two-day symposium. "What we
see now is every 30 days there is a doubling of new infections."
He
estimated the epidemic would last another six to 12 months.
West
Africa is experiencing the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Cases have also been
recorded in the United States, Germany, Spain, Norway, France and Britain. So
far, 10,141 suspected cases have been reported and the death toll stands at
4,922.
"In
Africa, there are many Chinese working there. So that could be a risk for China
in general, and I assume that one day [an outbreak of Ebola in China] will
happen," said Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine.
He
also said that infection control measures at mainland hospitals were not always
"up to standard", which put public health at great risk.
Piot
stressed the importance of training people to spot at-risk air passengers before
they boarded. And he said voluntary surveillance measures at Chek Lap Kok
airport in Hong Kong were not effective enough. "Widespread screening [of
arrivals] in airports is not that effective, to be honest … the most
cost-effective method is to screen people before they take the
plane."
A
patient feared to have Ebola in Hong Kong tested negative in a preliminary test
yesterday. The 39-year-old man, who had been in Nigeria from October 13 to 20,
went to Prince of Wales Hospital before being transferred to the Infectious
Disease Centre at Princess Margaret Hospital.
Piot
said the best way to bring Ebola under control was the use of "safe and cheap"
blood tests that took as little as 10 minutes.
China
sent a 59-member contingent of medical personnel to Sierra Leone in response to
calls of the country for international aid to fight the deadly Ebola
epidemic.
The
mobile laboratory from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention has
so far tested 696 samples, with 375 positive of the virus since their arrival
last month.
The
core part of the team is a group of eight people, with an average age of 35.
Yang Fan and Su Haoxiang, one of the most shining duos in the team, were widely
known as they have been working together as partners for four years in dealing
with major epidemic outbreaks back at home.
However,
it's the first time they are confronted with Ebola, a virus requiring biosafety
level 4-equivalent containment at laboratories where diagnostic testing is
carried out.
Testing
in the Chinese mobile lab was based on Protection-3 platform developed by China.
Medical personnel have to first inactivate the virus before the so-called PCR
process to determine the nature of the sample.
Yang,
the most senior in the team, is charged with the toxin inactivation process.
When Su, the youngest at the testing team, takes the sample for PCR, it is
already detoxicated.
It is
therefore quite safe for Su to join Yang in the final process. Yang and Su were
somewhat like the traditional master and disciple in their years of working
together.
It is
common for them to have a kind of discussion following every testing process,
where Su learns and matures.
"Work
in Sierra Leone will definitely be one of the most important experiences in my
life," said Su.
Sierra
Leone's Health Minister Abu Bakarr Fofanah has described the Chinese aid as
"phenomenal."
He
noted that China had airlifted 1.36 million dollars' worth of anti-Ebola drugs
followed by a contingent of medical personnel.
In
addition, the Chinese Embassy also converted the Sierra Leone-Chinese Friendship
Hospital, about 30 km east of Freetown, to a hospital capable of handling cases
of highly infectious diseases like Ebola, said the minister.
He said
with Chinese aid, the country can now boast of a 100-bed hospital facility in
the capital, Freetown, that can be readily "transformed to a management and
treatment center."
NJ official: Female health care worker who'd been in Africa isolated with fever, symptoms have worsened. (CNN).
One day after New York officials announced a Doctors Without Borders physician had tested positive for Ebola, another person who treated patients in West Africa developed a fever and was put in isolation at a northern New Jersey hospital.
The second health care worker, a woman who hasn't been identified by name, did not have any Ebola symptoms upon arrival Friday at Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey health department spokesman Donna Leusner said.
Yet things changed in the hours that followed. According to Leusner, "This evening, the health care worker developed a fever and is now in isolation and being evaluated at University Hospital in Newark."
That woman is being tested for Ebola, according to a government official who is receiving updates about the situation.
Unlike Dr. Craig Spencer, the 33-year-old now in isolation at Bellevue Hospital in nearby New York City, this second health care worker is not confirmed to have Ebola. Read the full story here.
Mali, where Ebola vaccine trials are underway, Becomes Sixth West African Nation Hit by Ebola. (Yahoo).
Mali confirmed its first case of Ebola on Thursday, becoming the sixth West African country to be touched by the worst outbreak on record of the hemorrhagic fever, which has killed nearly 4,900 people.
Mali’s Health Minister Ousmane Kone told state television that the patient in the western town of Kayes was a two-year-old girl who had recently arrived from neighboring Guinea, where the outbreak began.
“The condition of the girl, according to our services, is improving thanks to her rapid treatment,” the minister told state television.
A health ministry official, who asked not to be identified, said the girl’s mother died in Guinea a few weeks ago and the baby was brought by relatives to the Malian capital Bamako, where she stayed for 10 days in the Bagadadji neighborhood before heading to Kayes.
Coincidence: Ebola Vaccine Trials Under Way in Mali
Ebola Cover up? Almost all Turkish pilgrims informed about Ebola threat and under the medical supervision. (Taz) Almost all the pilgrims who returned from Saudi Arabia to Turkey were informed about the threat of Ebola and coronavirus (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, MERS), the Turkish news agency Anadolu said Oct. 23. Reportedly, almost all the pilgrims who returned from the hajj, an annual Islamic pilgrimage to the Saudi city of Mecca, are under the medical supervision of doctors at home. A Turkish citizen who returned from the hajj has been today admitted to a hospital in Istanbul with an Ebola suspicion.
Thus, the number of those admitted to hospitals in Turkey with an Ebola suspicion reached to six people.
Five of them are the hajj pilgrims, and one is a Turkish student studying in Somalia.
Earlier it was reported that 45 special hospitals were allocated in 36 provinces of Turkey in case of detection of people sick with Ebola. Special hospitals are allocated mainly in the provinces with international airports. In particular, three hospitals were allocated in Ankara, and two special hospitals in Istanbul.
According to the latest Ebola Response Situation Report from WHO, a total of 9936 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) have been reported in five affected countries (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Spain, and the United States of America) and two previously affected countries (Nigeria and Senegal).
A total of 4877 deaths have been reported, according to the report.
The outbreaks of EVD in Senegal and Nigeria were declared over on 17 October and 19 October 2014, respectively. EVD transmission remains persistent and widespread in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Hmmmm.....Why do i get more and more the feeling Turkey is covering up Ebola cases? Related: More people hospitalized in Turkey, suspected having Ebola.
More people hospitalized in Turkey, suspected having Ebola. (Taz).
Three people suspected Ebola were hospitalized in the Turkish provinces of Izmir, Kahraman Marash and Konya, the Anadolu Turkish news agency said Oct.22.
One of the hospitalized is a Turkish student who studies in Somalia and returned to his homeland, and the rest returned from the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
Thus, the number of hospitalized suspected Ebola in Turkey reached five people, four of whom are persons returned from the Hajj.
Earlier it was reported that 45 special hospitals were allocated in 36 provinces of Turkey in case of detection of people sick with Ebola.
Special hospitals are allocated mainly in the provinces with international airports. In particular, three hospitals were allocated in Ankara, and two special hospitals in Istanbul.
It is also reported that citizens of countries in which Ebola was revealed are checked at the airports in Turkey.
Ebola virus is rapidly spreading in West Africa, namely in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria, Congo and Senegal. The cases of Ebola infection have been registered in the US, Spain, Norway, Australia and other countries as well.
The World Heath Organization (WHO) reports 4,033 people have died so far, with 8,399 probable or suspected cases. However in reality, this number could be much higher due to under reporting of the disease.
The US Center for Disease Control claims cases in Liberia are doubling every 15-20 days while those in Sierra Leone are doubling every 30-40 days.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also estimate Liberia and Sierra Leone could see 1.4 million cases of Ebola within three months when under-reported cases are taken into account.
"Licenced To Demolish" - James Bond stuntman crashes in İstanbul bazaar shop.(HD).A 400-year-old wooden building on Aynacılar Street in the Grand Bazaar was damaged on the first day of Istanbul filming of the latest addition to the James Bond series, 'Skyfall,' yesterday, when motorcycles, which were driven in front of a jewelry shop, missed the corner and hit the structure, daily Hürriyet reported.
The shop, called Boybeyi, provides the jewelry used in the popular Turkish TV series “Muhteşem Yüzyıl” (A Magnificent Century).
The shop window and the marble of the building were broken during the accident and its columns also suffered damage. The owner of the jewelry shop, Mete Boybeyi, called the police following the incident.
“This is one of the oldest buildings in the bazaar. A fire could have started because of sparks from the motorcycle, and this building could have burned down. We did not even know that there would be filming in this area. Some shop owners said their shop windows were also broken. Permission for the shooting was obtained from the Grand Bazaar Artisans Association but nobody asked us,” Boybeyi said.
"This place is regulated by the Council of Monuments. We can't even change our window without their permission," he said.
The bureaucracy involved in replacing the window would take quite some time, Boybeyi said, and that would mean the shop would remain shut and a loss of revenue.The production company will pay daily sums to shop owners on the street to cover their three-week loss. Owners will open their shops but will not be able to make any sales; only döner sellers will continue working in the shooting area.Read the full story here.
