TRAFFIC ACCIDENT KILLS ONE TESEV ASSISTANT, WOUNDS 3
Today’s Zaman, Turkey
Jan 10 2008
A traffic accident claimed the life of a program assistant for the
Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) and wounded
three others late Tuesday.
Derya Demirler, a program assistant for TESEV’s Democratization Program
and assistant to Armenian-Turkish weekly Agos Editor-in-Chief Etyen
Mahcupyan, died in a traffic accident late Tuesday in the Bismil
district of southeastern Diyarbakýr province. Dilek Kurban, Taner
Aker and Elif Kalaycýoðlu survived the accident with injuries.
Sources noted that a vehicle carrying four TESEV researchers, working
in the foundation’s Democratization Program, were involved in the
accident near the Coltepe village in Bismil. Demirler, Kurban, Aker
and Kalaycýoðlu were rushed to nearby hospitals, but Demirler died
despite medical attention.
Demirler was laid to rest Wednesday amid tears in a cemetery in
central Eskiþehir province.
Officials from Dicle University’s department of medicine noted
that Aker and Kalaycýoðlu are recovering whereas Kurban is still in
critical condition.
Diyarbakýr Mayor Osman Baydemir and Diyarbakýr Bar Association
President Sezgin Tanrýkulu have paid visits to the injured at the
hospital.
Demirler received her bachelor’s degree in political science and
international relations from Bosporus University in 2004 and was doing
a master’s program in human rights law at Ýstanbul Bilgi University.
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