Work at Trabzon City Hospital, planned as the new health base of the Black Sea, continues at full speed on a 24/7 basis with approximately a thousand people. Electrical-mechanical manufacturing and facade manufacturing in 4 blocks of the hospital, built on a closed area of ​​285 thousand square meters, have been completed. The hospital, which will double the intensive care capacity in the city, will have 300 outpatient clinics and 33 operating rooms. The hospital has a total bed capacity of 900, 236 of which will be intensive care and 664 will be single beds. The city hospital, whose construction was completed using 5,200 bored piles, will be protected against earthquakes with 762 seismic isolators installed.

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION IS BEING DONE
Trabzon Provincial Health Director Mehmet Topsakal said, “The physical completion rate in the construction of our city hospital has now reached 97.5 percent. Our priority is to get the concrete plants on the north side of the hospital from there. The infrastructure of the road that will connect the road passing from the north to the hospital has been built. This road is important for us in two ways. First, it will provide great support to the evacuation and entry and exit of the hospital, especially during the match in the stadium next door. The league will start in one and a half months. The road must be opened as soon as possible. We will hold a coordination meeting and that “We will meet with the contractor to remove the concrete plant from there as soon as possible and ensure its recovery,” he said. Topsakal said, “So far, there does not appear to be any structure that will prevent the delay in hospital construction. As I mentioned, landscaping of the construction remains. Our goal is to open our city hospital in November this year.”

In line with the statement given by a suspect who benefited from effective remorse provisions within the scope of the corruption and bribery investigation launched by the Silivri Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office against Silivri Municipality, it was revealed that a large amount of bribe money, which was exchanged at various foreign exchange offices by Silivri Mayor Balcıoğlu’s Private Secretary Aşkın Kaynar and his driver Serdar Tuna, was sent to CHP Silivri District Chairman Doruk Bulut.

In the expert report entered into the investigation file while Bulut was taken into custody, a public loss of 21.5 million lira was documented. On the other hand, CHP Silivri Municipal Council Member Aykut Batur, who was arrested during the investigation, was released within the scope of effective remorse provisions.

THEY PREPARED

According to the findings reflected in the expert reports; It was determined that a public loss in the amount of 21 million 522 thousand 717 liras and 40 kuruş was caused as a result of the sale of a valuable non-registered real estate belonging to the municipality, which was a park area, at a low price. In addition, it was determined that there were organized irregularities in the recruitment of personnel to the municipality, business transfer and rental transactions, granting of zoning and licenses, irregular removal of seals, turning a blind eye to illegal buildings and municipal real estate sales processes.

Silivri Mayor Bora Balcıoğlu, who was arrested on June 15, 2026, was suspended from office.

“Van Lake Basin Common Mind Platform for the Future / Van Lake Basin Sustainable Future Workshop”, organized in cooperation with Zero Waste Foundation, Van Governorship, Bitlis Governorship, Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, Bitlis Eren University and Van and Bitlis Provincial Directorates of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, has been completed. The final declaration prepared after two days of thematic table studies and evaluation sessions was shared with the public.

The workshop was held under the auspices and vision of Emine Erdoğan, Founder of the Zero Waste Movement and Chairperson of the UN Zero Waste High-Level Personalities Advisory Board; It brought together a total of 325 participants from 2 cities, 14 ministries, 40 general directorates, academics, non-governmental organizations and the private sector in 1 basin.

The workshop final declaration included the establishment of the basin management model. It was recommended that the “Van Lake Basin Digital Management Center Supreme Council” with an independent budget be activated and a 1/25,000 scale master zoning plan be prepared.

EKOZEKA SYSTEM WILL BE ESTABLISHED

Within the scope of digital transformation, it was recommended to establish the “EKOZEKA VAN” system for data-oriented monitoring and to monitor the basin in an integrated manner with digital twin technologies.

While Minister of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Yumaklı said, “Van Closed Basin Master Plan will form the road map for the coming years,” Zero Waste Foundation President Samed Ağırbaş stated that they will present their will to the world as a “good practice example” at the UN COP31 Summit.

Artist Haluk Levent, who discredited public institutions in the disaster of the century and made a billion-dollar profit by gambling and betting with the aid collected from the AHBAP Association, confessed his gambling addiction and the profiteering he made from the AHBAP Association, which he founded, on his social media account. Stating that he received 50 million worth of gold and land guarantee from the association, Levent disguised it as an illegal transaction and disguised his attempt to escape abroad and turning off his mobile phones, claiming “I was going to pay 140 million to the association, but I was caught before I could pay.” Haluk Levent, the President of the Friends Association, who exploited the most sensitive feelings of the nation in the disaster of the century and established a huge corruption and fraud network worth billions of liras under the mask of “Türkiye’s most reliable name”, explained his heist in the letter he sent from the prison where he was detained.

Emphasizing that his passion for gambling put him in a vicious circle, Levent stated that he borrowed money from people with high interest rates and promises in order to pay off his debts. Levent said, “Gambling is a very bad disease. I succumbed to my reputation, ambition and weaknesses. Can a debt of 35 million lira turn into 250 million in 6 months? It is possible… I am someone who offers 2-3 times as much to borrow money from people.” Responding to the allegations that he embezzled the money of the Dude Association, Levent confirmed that he made irregular transactions within the association, but he disguised this as illegal borrowing, not theft. Claiming that he planned to close the gap that occurred before the ministry’s inspection, Levent explained that he acted with the logic of “take from there and give here” and explained the millions he received from the association. Levent, who admitted that the association had purchased gold for 50 million liras and a land guarantee, claimed that he aimed to replace these before the inspection came.

HE HANGED UP THE PHONE, TRIED TO ESCAPE AND SAID ‘I DID NOT KNOW’
Levent, who learned that there was a travel ban against him at the airport where he went to go abroad and was later caught in Bursa while turning off his 4 mobile phones and escaping, did not mention these at all in the letter he wrote from prison. Levent only reacted to the timing of the operation, claiming that he took action on Friday, July 10, to pay his debts to the association, and that he would cover the entire deficiency with the transfer of 20 houses worth 150 million lira in Çerkezköy and 140 million TL transferred to his bank account.

SUSPICION OF MONEY LAUNDERING THROUGH REAL ESTATE PURCHASE
Haluk Levent ignored the AHBAP profiteering and claimed that he was arrested for fraud over the so-called real estate sale. Levent, who admitted that he bought the real estate with a value of 22 million dollars from Hüseyin Başaran for 60 million dollars, did not explain why he bought the real estate at 3 times the price.

MILLION PROFIT USED BY FAMOUS SCAMMER RAKİ
In Fatih, Istanbul, Armenian citizen Tigran P. disguised himself with a wig, glasses, a full beard and dyed eyebrows and opened a bag store in a passage. Tigran P., who started shopping for gold thanks to the trust he established with the surrounding tradesmen, after a while made a profit in the market with the “Kunduzi” method of Güney Zobu, nicknamed “Raki”, the famous fraudster of the 1980s.

Tigran P. put the gold brought by the couriers into his safe. After telling the couriers, “You sit down and I’ll come with the money,” he disappeared with his accomplice Henrik S. (36). Suspicious when Tigran did not arrive, the couriers saw that the back of the safe had a hole and that the hole opened into the corridor behind the shop.

Two suspects who stole 4 kilos of 14 carat gold worth 300 thousand dollars were caught while having a picnic on the seashore. Tigran P., who got rid of his fake disguise after the escape, looked different when he was caught, but he was caught by the shirt he wore during the incident and the scar on his forehead. YunusEmre KAVAK/ SABAH

HAVELSAN was the main contractor of the Ship Traffic Services Center, which was opened with an official ceremony in the Famagusta district of TRNC the other day. Speaking about the project that aims to maximize maritime security and situational awareness throughout the Eastern Mediterranean and the “Blue Homeland”, HAVELSAN General Manager Mehmet Akif Nacar said that the domestic digital maritime surveillance system has been strengthened with the support of artificial intelligence. Making a statement to the press about the Vessel Traffic Services System established in the Famagusta district of TRNC within the scope of the Eastern Mediterranean Vessel Traffic Services Project, Nacar underlined that the system has achieved an integrated structure in which foreign ship movements, human smuggling and illegal operations can be detected, thanks to the local software integrated with the radars, electronic systems, communication infrastructure and towers installed in the field, and said: “The system can work in integration with our existing systems and raises situational awareness to higher levels with its artificial intelligence-supported analysis ability.

In 2023, HAVELSAN replaced foreign software with local ones in the Turkish Straits Vessel Traffic Services and reinforced the sensors with local products. The system installed in TRNC went one step further than its predecessors with a higher localization rate. This system will be the eye of both Türkiye and TRNC in the “Blue Homeland”. Thanks to this system, what is happening here can be detected and displayed much more easily. This will bring us greater freedom to move. “We will provide situational awareness at sea with our own systems, without depending on others,” he said. AA

The echoes of the visit of the Cambridge Central Mosque, built with the support of Türkiye in Cambridge, England, by the King of England Charles III the other day, continue. During his visit to the Cambridge Central Mosque, described as “Europe’s first environmentally friendly mosque”, Charles III met with the mosque’s imams, trustees and members of the Muslim community in Cambridge. During the visit, Türkiye’s Ambassador to London Osman Koray Ertaş, Cambridge Mosque Foundation Board of Trustees members Zeynep Coşkun Koç and Prof. Dr. Many guests attended, as well as Selim Argun and Abdülhakim Murad, a British researcher and writer who converted to Islam at the age of 19.

Cambridge Mosque Foundation Board of Trustees Member Zeynep Coşkun Koç stated that the letter written by President Erdoğan to King Charles was also presented during the visit, and noted that Erdoğan stated in the letter that he found the King’s visit to the mosque valuable at a time when Islamophobia and racism were increasing. Koç said, “The King was also very pleased to receive such a letter from the President. Our President had an invitation to him. We conveyed this. He was also very happy and said, ‘I really want to go to Türkiye anyway.'” he said. Stating that King Charles said that he was very impressed by the architecture and environmentally friendly features of the mosque while leaving the visit, Koç stated that the King himself drew attention to the importance of worshiping in this structure, which was built as a mosque. Koç said, “Everyone is very aware that this mosque could not have been built without Türkiye’s support. It is very good to hear this. This shows the vision led by our President Erdoğan.” he said.