TURKISH MAN IN MALAYSIA KIDNAPPED IN SAME COMMANDO STYLE AS – AGAIN, IGP TELLS FAMILY TO HUSH UP BECAUSE THE MAN WAS ARRESTED

KUALA LUMPUR— A Turkish man heading an international school in Ipoh was allegedly abducted just before he was due to testify as a witness in a two-day criminal trial starting today.

Suheyl Ozcelik, a fellow Turkish citizen teaching physics at the same Time International School, lodged a police report late last night of the alleged abduction of Turgay Karaman.

  


Ozcelik said he and his friends had discovered the afternoon abduction after viewing close circuit television (CCTV) footage of the office building where Turgay was to have met with lawyers.

“We were shocked to witness from the CCTV recordings that five unknown men had abducted Mr Turgay and forced him to enter one of their cars, Nissan Almera Car Registration No: WQE 8216. The other car is a Proton Gen-2 Car Registration No: BFD 6198;

“The CCTV Recordings clearly showed the faces of these five unknown men who blocked Mr Turgay’s face from the camera,” Ozcelik said in the police report lodged at the Damansara police station and sighted by Malay Mail Online.

According to Ozcelik’s police report, the 43-year-old Turgay was scheduled to have attended a witness briefing at 4.30pm yesterday for a criminal case at the lawyers’ office at Wisma E&C at Damansara Heights.

After arriving at 4.25pm with two other friends at the office building’s basement parking, Ozcelik said they thought Turgay had already arrived as they saw his car in the parking lot.

Screenshot of Wisma E&C's security footage showing the men who allegedly abducted Turgay Karaman. 

Screenshot of Wisma E&C’s security footage showing the men who allegedly abducted Turgay Karaman.


He said however that he tried contacting Turgay at 4.35pm when the meeting with lawyers started, but could not reach Turgay either through phone calls or WhatsApp messages as the latter’s mobile phone was switched off.

He said he kept trying to call Turgay from 6.40pm to 7.00pm after the meeting ended but was unsuccessful, adding that he then “panicked” as two of his Turkish friends were abducted last October 13 and deported to Turkey the following day.

He then immediately asked to view the security footage of the basement carpark and its exit gate, which led to the discovery of the abduction.

“I request the police to investigate the kidnapping and notify the Immigration Department to stop any attempt to remove Mr Turgay from Malaysia,” Ozcelik said in his police report, further expressing his fears for his own safety and his deported Turkish friends’ lives.

He noted that Turgay’s passport which is still at his house will only expire October 10, 2021, and that his employment pass is still valid until this October 2.

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KUALA LUMPUR: Police are investigating the alleged abduction of a Turkish man by unknown individuals at a carpark in Damansara Heights Tuesday, a day before he was to appear as a witness in a case at the magistrate’s court.

Turgay Karaman, who is believed to be the principal of an international school in Ipoh, was supposed to testify in a trial set for May 3 and 4.

Karaman was supposed to meet his friend, Suheyl Ozcelik, at their lawyer’s office in Damansara Heights at 4.30pm but did not turn up.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said police are studying the CCTV footage and trying to get in touch with the victim’s wife.

“We need to gather all the facts first.

“If indeed he was kidnapped, the family must refrain from spreading information that can jeopardise the investigation, ” he said.

Worried for Karaman’s safety, Ozcelik lodged a police report at the Damansara Police Station.



According to Ozcelik, Karaman was supposed to meet him at their lawyer’s office in Damansara Heights at 4.30pm.

Ozcelik told police that he arrived with two other friends at the venue five minutes before the appointment and saw Karaman’s car.

However, when the meeting started at 4.35pm, the friends noticed Karaman’s absence and started calling and texting him only to realise that his phone was turned off and the messages were not delivered.

Ozcelik and his lawyers continued with the meeting and later tried to call Karaman but their efforts were futile.

“I started to panic because two of my Turkish friends were abducted on Oct 13 last year and were deported to Turkey the next day,” claimed Ozcelik.

He said he managed to secure CCTV footage from the building’s management office which showed Taraman surrounded by five men in two cars and was forced to enter one of the cars.

“I’m afraid for his safety,” he said.

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Alarm grows in Washington as Saudi coalition attack on Yemen port appears imminent

If it happens, then the Iranians proxies in Bahrain, Saudi eastern oil and gas producing areas, Lebanon will start attacking Saudi interest.

Big time war and oil prices will shoot up and will make Najib smile

Houthi rebels ride on the back of a patrol truck in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on April 19. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers urged Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Tuesday to reconsider his support for a seemingly imminent assault by a Saudi-led coalition on the crucial Yemeni port city of Hodeida.

“In the face of Yemen’s senseless humanitarian tragedy, where 19 million people need emergency support, we are committed to using our Constitutional authority to assert greater oversight over U.S. involvement in the conflict and promote greater public debate regarding U.S. military participation in Yemen’s civil war, which has never been authorized by Congress,” the legislators said in a letter.

The letter comes on the heels of another, signed by 55 legislators, to President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions insisting that any direct U.S. involvement in Yemen be brought before Congress for authorization. In a trip to Saudi Arabia in April, Mattis hinted at direct U.S. military and intelligence support for the Saudi-led coalition, which is seeking to dislodge the Shiite-led Houthi rebels from Sanaa and other areas they control in Yemen.

Saudi fighter jets dropped leaflets over Houthi-controlled Hodeida in recent days warning its hundreds of thousands of residents of an impending offensive, according to the United Nations and aid agencies. Yemen imports 90 percent of its food, and Hodeida's already-damaged port is the entry point for the vast majority of it. A two-year-long civil war has destroyed Yemen's economy, and more than 7 million people rely on humanitarian aid for survival.

Human rights activists have accused the Saudis of indiscriminate bombing in its campaign, saying it has killed thousands of civilians and reduced much of Yemen's vital infrastructure to rubble.

Mattis has asked for the scrapping of Obama-era rules prohibiting direct support to the coalition. Although the Obama administration sold weapons and refueled aircraft to the coalition, direct U.S. engagement through special teams was ruled out because it was considered ineffective in thwarting the well-armed Houthis and because of humanitarian concerns.


But the Trump administration has taken a harder line on the Houthis, driven by Saudi allegations that Iran funds, trains and arms the rebels as part of a proxy war against the Sunni monarchies that make up the bulk of the coalition. The Saudis allege that weapons are smuggled through Hodeida to the Houthis, providing the rebels a vital lifeline.

On Monday, U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein echoed the exhortations of aid organizations, saying, “The U.N. is concerned about the humanitarian repercussions of such an attack in terms of inflaming the humanitarian crisis even further, let alone our concerns about loss of civilian life were there to be a large-scale attack on port.”

Tuesday's letter, drafted by Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) and Justin Amash (R-Mich.), asserts that any direct U.S. support for an offensive on the Houthis must be authorized by Congress. The letter also threatens legislation that would seek to “prohibit U.S. involvement in any such assault” should Mattis fail to brief Congress on the nature of U.S. support for the coalition.

“Last month, in a bipartisan request, 54 of my colleagues and I asked President Trump a simple question: what legal justification is the White House claiming for escalating U.S. involvement in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen — a war that’s never been authorized by Congress?” Pocan said in an email. “With a potential green light from President Trump, the Saudis appear to be gearing up to destroy the lifeline to food imports for millions of Yemenis on the verge of starvation.”

[A child in Yemen dies every 10 minutes as humanitarian aid funding falls short, U.N. says]

Since the Houthis took control of the Hodeida port, the Saudi navy has imposed a de facto blockade, allowing only a trickle of ships to dock. Saudi jets have also damaged many of the port's cranes, making the unloading process difficult and time-consuming. The Saudis rarely take part in ground operations, and an assault on Hodeida would probably involve a large number of troops from the United Arab Emirates, a coalition partner.


Since Hodeida is densely populated, and the port is surrounded by the bustling city, an assault could take weeks, if not months, and lead to a mass exodus of residents as well as the tens of thousands of internally displaced people sheltering there.

“The big question is how do they take the city without destroying it and the port in the process,” said Scott Paul, a senior humanitarian policy adviser at Oxfam International who has worked in Yemen. “With any closure, we'd almost certainly have a famine in just a few months.”

Administration officials have expressed concern about the humanitarian fallout of such an assault but have cautioned that U.S. interests in the region are increasingly at risk unless Washington acts.

Houthi naval aggression has made traversing the narrow Bab el-Mandeb Strait, where thousands of ships bound to and from the Suez Canal travel, hazardous.

In October, Houthis attacked U.S. and allied ships crossing the Red Sea, prompting the United States to use Tomahawk missiles to destroy Houthi coastal radar sites. Officials said a Houthi missile aimed at a U.S. naval vessel was fired from Hodeida.

The loss of Hodeida could force the Houthis back to the negotiating table, as the coalition hopes, but the bloodshed expected could also deepen the war's divisions and prolong Yemen's immense suffering.

Father of Seremban student forced to ingest poison says Pravin was a good son

Is it going to be a case of No future action because of racial politics as Majority of Glue sniffers are from the Majority race in Malaysia and the poor kid who was murdered happen to be a Malaysian Indian. The Malaysian Indians will watch this case closely and see if any action taken to give the poor boy who died and his family Justice. The Malaysian Indians who are in two minds of voting BN will vote Pakatan Harapan and this is a cumulative of attacks and bullying against the minority Malaysian Indians by the majority race.

 MIC having a bad day with their tail between their hind legs and stuck in their bottom pit hole and where is Hindraf any the others who claim to fight on behalf of Malaysian Indians

NILAI: 


The father of the teen who died after being forced to ingest poison by school bullies has called on his son’s school to be stricter in enforcing its rules.

“I hope that the school will be more strict in enforcing the rules and that the police will investigate thoroughly the circumstances leading to my son’s death.

“He was a good and obedient son. He was diligent in his studies but there are many negative elements surrounding his school with students playing truant and sniffing glue,” said Selvarajah Mennanchatty, father of S. Pravin, who died last night at Hospital Tuanku Ja’afar.

Last Wednesday, 15-year-old Pravin was allegedly forced to ingest poison by a group of students who were angry at him as he had scolded them for sniffing glue.

The group then allegedly held him down and forced the victim to down the poison.

It was reported that the victim then went home and told his mother of the incident and complained of throat and stomach pains the following day.

He was sent to a health clinic before being referred to the hospital for further treatment.

He passed away while still receiving treatment at the hospital.

Deputy Education Minister and MCA Youth Chief Datuk Chong Sin Woon visited the family to offer his condolences and to pay his last respects to the deceased.

NASA reveals 'megatsunami' of hot gas twice the size of the Milky Way rolling through the Perseus galaxy cluster

Galaxy is 11 million light-years across and located 240 million light-years away

Wave formed billions of years ago, after a small galaxy cluster grazed Perseus and caused its vast supply of gas to slosh around an enormous volume of space

Flyby creates  disturbance that churns up the gas like cream stirred into coffee

This animation dissolves between two different views of hot gas in the Perseus galaxy cluster. The first is Chandra's best view of hot gas in the central region of the Perseus cluster, where red, green and blue indicate lower-energy to higher-energy X-rays, respectively. The larger image incorporates additional data over a wider field of view. It has been specially processed to enhance the contrast of edges, revealing subtle structures in the gas. The wave is marked by the upward-arcing curve near the bottom, centered at about 7 o'clock.

GALAXY CLUSTERS 

Galaxy clusters are the largest structures bound by gravity in the universe today.
Some 11 million light-years across and located about 240 million light-years away, the Perseus galaxy cluster is named for its host constellation. 
Like all galaxy clusters, most of its observable matter takes the form of a pervasive gas averaging tens of millions of degrees, so hot it only glows in X-rays.

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HOW THEY SOLVED THE MYSTERY

To solve the mystery, Walker and his colleagues turned to existing Chandra observations of the Perseus cluster to further investigate the bay. 

They combined a total of 10.4 days of high-resolution data with 5.8 days of wide-field observations at energies between 700 and 7,000 electron volts. 

For comparison, visible light has energies between about two and three electron volts. 

The researchers say the wave formed billions of years ago, after a small galaxy cluster grazed Perseus and caused its vast supply of gas to slosh around an enormous volume of space. This X-ray image of the hot gas in the Perseus galaxy cluster was made from 16 days of Chandra observations. Researchers then filtered the data in a way that brightened the contrast of edges in order to make subtle details more obvious. An oval highlights the location of an enormous wave found to be rolling through the gas.

Holy chick! Fasting by medieval Christians more than 1,000 years ago led to the evolution of domestic HENS

Monks banned meat at fasting but allowed chicken and eggs in Medieval times

As a result chickens evolved to be less aggressive and lay eggs at a faster rate

These traits began to appear during the High Middle Ages, around 1,000 AD 

A new study of discarded medieval chicken bones and their DNA found modern traits began to appear during the High Middle Ages, around 1,000 AD 

MODERN CHICKENS

Benedictine monks banned meat during fasting but allowed chicken and eggs in Medieval Europe. 

Chickens evolved a number of traits valuable to humans, including reduced aggression and faster egg-laying.

Researchers looked at discarded medieval chicken bones and their DNA, and found these traits began to appear during the High Middle Ages, around 1,000 AD.

Research shows that people were increasingly eating chicken around that time. 

They developed a variant of this gene that has been shown to enable faster egg-laying, and result in reduced aggression and decreased fear of humans. 

Benedictine monks banned meat during fasting but allowed chicken and eggs in Medieval Europe. At this time chickens evolved a number of traits valuable to humans (stock image)



GENETIC VARIANTS

The new study analysed ancient and modern chicken DNA using a statistical method they developed to pinpoint when selection starts and how strong it is.

Scientists pinpointed genetic variants in the thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor (TSHR) and the beta-carotene dioxygenase 2 (BCD02). 

In chickens, a variant of the TSHR gene has been shown to enable faster egg-laying, and result in reduced aggression and decreased fear of humans.

Selection of this gene began around 920AD, which coincides with increased chicken consumption across the whole of Northern Europe.

BCD02 has an effect on skin pigmentation in birds but they lacked the right statistical methods to quantify the timing or strength of natural selection.

China's secretive J-13 stealth fighter revealed

China's improved J-31 is poised to be the nation's stealth fighter for aircraft carriers and would ultimately take the place of the single-engine J-10s that are currently used in battle. The craft has been spending more time in flight tests - suggesting it could soon be put into action

In addition to size, the craft was fitted with an IRST sensor, stealth capabilities, better radar technology and cleaner burner engines (concept drawing)

China first showed-off the J-31 in 2014 (pictured) at an airshow. But  fells short because it 'did not fly with advanced avionics and stealth features, suggesting its role to be a proof of concept for testing SAC's stealth technology, and hopefully attract buyers'


Latest prototypes of plane that could take on the F-35 are pictured

China has been ramping up testing for its secretive J-13 stealth fighter jet 

Craft said to be the same size as America's F-35 and could replace China's J-10s

Has a range of 775 miles, carries up to 28 tons and reaches Mach 1.8 speeds

However, the first prototype seemed to be less equipped for the battlefield  

Developed by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC), the twin-engine J-31 is similar in size to the F-35, with a range of 775 miles, can carry up to 28 tons and is able to reach Mach 1.8 speeds. This is the second version of the prototype the firm has developed 

WHAT ARE THE FEATURES? 

The firm gave the prototype another go in December 2016 and this time, the plane was heavier and longer than its predecessor. In addition to size, the craft was fitted with an IRST sensor, stealth capabilities, better radar technology and cleaner burner engines (concept drawing)



Developed by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC), the twin-engine J-31 is similar in size to the F-35, with a range of 775 miles, can carry up to 28 tons and is able to reach Mach 1.8 speeds. 

SAC foresees its craft ultimately replacing the J-10s and the firm may market the J-31 to other nations that are barred from purchasing America's F-35. 

The craft boasts an IRST sensor, stealth capabilities, better radar technology and cleaner burner engines.

The team also went as far as to replace the WS-13 engines with domestic WS-13E or WS-17 turbofan engines that give it more speed.

AMERICA'S F-35 IN FIGURES

Role: Stealth multirole fighter

First flight: December 15, 2006

Unit cost (not including engine):

F-35A - $98million
F-35B - $104million
F-35C - $116million
Number built: 115 (as of November 2014)
Length: 51ft (15.67m)
Wingspan: 35ft (10.7m)
Height: 14ft (4.33m)
Max speed (F-35A): 1199mph  (1,930kph)

Terrifying moment a 'Star Wars' electromagnetic railgun blows a truck to pieces with 4,500mph projectiles

The footage was released by General Atomics, a defence contractor headquartered in San Diego, California. It shows the enormous gun fire projectiles into the side of a military-standard vehicle. The projectiles are filmed travelling through the air in slow motion. Upon impact, the truck explodes and appears to break into thousands of tiny pieces. Described by researchers as 'Star Wars technology', these powerful missiles don't rely on chemical propellants and are fuelled by electricity alone.

Footage is from General Atomic, a US government contractor based in San Diego

Railgun exceeds accelerations of Mach 6, which is six times the speed of sound

It uses electromagnetic energy to propel a metal projectile at huge speeds

Powerful missiles are fuelled by a 'pulse power system' and ship electricity

HOW DOES THE RAILGUN REACH SUCH SPEEDS?

Railguns use electricity instead of gunpowder to accelerate a projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound.

Using an electromagnetic force known as the Lorenz Force, the gun accelerates a projectile between two rails that conduct electricity, before launching it at ferocious speed. 

This means the railgun can fire further than conventional guns and maintain enough kinetic energy to inflict tremendous damage.

Tests have shown that the weapons can fire a shell weighing 10kg at up to 5,400mph over 100 miles - with such force and accuracy it penetrates three concrete walls or six half-inch thick steel plates.

The video below shows tests of BAE's model.