May 27, 2012
 |
Swine flu paralyzes Mardin soccer team
Mardinspor coach Şekip Elik comforts one of his quarantined swine flu-affected players.
19 November 2009 / TODAY’S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
The killer swine flu does not discriminate, infecting young and old, rich and poor, male and female, black and white -- and even soccer players.
Almost the entire third division Mardinspor team has been knocked out by the H1N1 virus and is down for the count.
On Monday, eight Mardinspor players were diagnosed with H1N1 and were being kept under close surveillance.
On Tuesday, six other players, as well as coach Şekip Elik, were also diagnosed with swine flu and were immediately rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment.
The eight players bedridden on Monday, the six on Tuesday -- Menderes Korkmaz, Nedim Köseoğlu, Mehmet Balcı, Arif Çalbay, Özkan Bilgiç and Erkan Öztürk -- and the team coach have been quarantined to curb the spread of the virus.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| AMANDA PAUL |  |
||
| Ukraine: a lost country | |||
| MÜMTAZER TÜRKÖNE |  |
||
| The 52nd anniversary of May 27 | |||
| ABDULLAH BOZKURT |  |
||
| Turkey and Mexico: Distant yet so close | |||
| BERİL DEDEOĞLU |  |
||
| Yemen and beyond | |||
| ARZU KAYA URANLI |  |
||
| On Memorial Day a few words to make your day memorable | |||
| ABDÜLHAMİT BİLİCİ |  |
||
| Google kidnaps Gül! | |||
| CUMALİ ÖNAL |  |
||
| Critical months for Egypt | |||
| DOĞU ERGİL |  |
||
| Qualities of power | |||
| İHSAN YILMAZ |  |
||
| The Egyptian elections, Islam and Islamists | |||
| EMRE USLU |  |
||
| Operational errors | |||
| MARKAR ESAYAN |  |
||
| There is need for a new initiative | |||
| JOOST LAGENDIJK |  |
||
| Europe can’t have it all. Or can it? | |||
| HASAN KANBOLAT |  |
||
| Are Russian tourists being discouraged from visiting Turkey? | |||
| MELİH ARAT |  |
||
| Handmade | |||
| KLAUS JURGENS |  |
||
| Back to the ’80s | |||
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
