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  • ANKARA: Traffic Accident Kills One TESEV Assistant, Wounds 3

    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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