Well, high drama in our small country. Dependent on a translation from a Turkish source here but the outlines are clear. A man, presumably newly arrived in TRNC was sent to quarantine to await his PCR test results. He should have had a negative test shortly before coming to the country. Quarantine will have been in one of the designated hotels, with a signed undertaking to stay in his room until officially permitted to leave. No armed guards, obviously. Allowing for a few translation glitches the story I have is as follows:
Online responses mostly angry, and with justification. Complaints that given the length of time between his leaving the hotel and the ship sailing the police should have got him. Mention of a helicopter circling over Kyrenia. The “ship” will be the regular ferry that goes from Kyrenia to Turkey and back. We’ve been on it, or its predecessor, although that’s nearly twenty years ago now. And the escapee has a Turkish name. Probably a Turkish citizen.
At the same time there is a certain farcical quality to the whole thing, some but not all of which comes from the lapses in the translation. “his room was searched but [he] was not seen inside”.
Visions of the man standing behind the door sucking in his gut. Then the report of the security camera showing the culprit, suitcase in hand, running out the back door and heading for the port. Reprehensible, dangerous, and somewhat keystone kops.
And finally there is some reassurance in the immediate response of police, health ministry, even helicopter involvement. Some reasonable faith in contact - and convict - tracing.
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Online responses mostly angry, and with justification. Complaints that given the length of time between his leaving the hotel and the ship sailing the police should have got him. Mention of a helicopter circling over Kyrenia. The “ship” will be the regular ferry that goes from Kyrenia to Turkey and back. We’ve been on it, or its predecessor, although that’s nearly twenty years ago now. And the escapee has a Turkish name. Probably a Turkish citizen.
At the same time there is a certain farcical quality to the whole thing, some but not all of which comes from the lapses in the translation. “his room was searched but [he] was not seen inside”.
Visions of the man standing behind the door sucking in his gut. Then the report of the security camera showing the culprit, suitcase in hand, running out the back door and heading for the port. Reprehensible, dangerous, and somewhat keystone kops.
And finally there is some reassurance in the immediate response of police, health ministry, even helicopter involvement. Some reasonable faith in contact - and convict - tracing.
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