House of ‘walking woman’ robbed

ISTANBUL – Hürriyet

A woman, marching from Istanbul to Ankara to protest Turkey’s 10 percent election threshold, has learnt that her passports were stolen from her apartment in Istanbul, daily Hürriyet reported on its website. DHA photo

A woman, marching from Istanbul to Ankara to protest Turkey’s 10 percent election threshold, has learnt that her passports were stolen from her apartment in Istanbul, daily Hürriyet reported on its website.

Aylin Kotil, who has been walking to the Turkish capital to draw attention to the election threshold, said that her husband told her that their apartment had been robbed. Her and her husband’s passports, a camera and her rings were stolen in the burglary, she was told by her husband.

“They took my rings but they did not take my necklaces. Anything is coming to my mind,” said Kotil, upon a question about whether the burglary had any connection to her march to the Turkish Parliament.

Kotil had tweeted that she might march to Brussels if the threshold was not decreased to five percent from 10, while marching to Ankara.

A member of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), Kotil was near Ankara city border yesterday, having set out to Ankara on foot from Istanbul on July 8.