Habertürk: “He got angry with his stepsister, killed his niece,” the daily said in the headline of its main story yesterday, reporting on a 20-year-old man who murdered the 4-year-old daughter of his stepsister because he was angry with the mother. Aliye Sultan Şen, who went missing after leaving home to buy candy on Monday, was found dead early Wednesday in a forest in the southeastern province of Gaziantep. M.K., her mother’s stepbrother, later confessed that he strangled his niece because he was angry at his stepsister. The girl’s mother, Fatma Şen, told police that M.K. had told her husband he would kill their daughter one month ago but they thought it was a joke, the daily reported.Bugün: In a front-page story yesterday, the daily reported on a chairlift failure on a line at the Kastamonu Ilgaz Ski Center which left 32 people stranded midair for two-and-half hours. The 32 people, including several children, waited for help in temperatures of minus 3 degrees Celsius. They were rescued by teams from the gendarmerie and civil defense with the help of ropes. One of those stranded on the chairlift, 12-year-old Efe Demirbaş, said they were afraid since rescue teams took so long to save them. “We thought we would freeze to death,” he said.
Yeni Şafak: “We will decrease deaths from cancer by 15 percent,” the daily said in the headline of its lead story yesterday, quoting remarks from Health Minister Recep Akdağ. Speaking at a press conference on the occasion of Feb. 4, World Cancer Day, at the Çırağan Palace in İstanbul on Wednesday, the minister said his ministry aims to decrease the number of cancer-related deaths by 15 percent and the number of cancer cases by 2 percent. Akdağ said the most frequently seen types of cancer are lung cancer and prostate cancer in men and breast cancer and skin cancer in women.
