SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2016 RABI AL-AWWAL 19, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Syrian girl killed With Ivanka, Pope Francis, Costa shines as fire ravages the duties of at 80, looks to as Chelsea Spring Camp first daughter ‘fruitful and secure 11th in Jahra area may change joyous’ old age straight win 3Suicide10 bombing13 targets20 Min 06º Turkish soldiers; 13 dead Max 20º High Tide 01:33 & 15:48 Amir sends a cable of condolence to Turkey president Low Tide 09:10 & 21:10 40 PAGES NO: 17084 150 FILS ISTANBUL: Thirteen Turkish soldiers were killed and dozens more wounded yesterday in a suicide car bomb- 241,220 work ing targeting off-duty conscripts blamed on Kurdish militants, the latest in a string of attacks to rock Turkey permits issued in recent months. The government said all signs so far suggested the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) By A Saleh was behind the bombing in the city of Kayseri, a usually calm industrial hub in Anatolia. KUWAIT: The Manpower Authority Deputy Director Forty-eight soldiers were wounded in the attack for Recruitment Ahmed Al-Mossa said that the total which struck when the soldiers were being taken from work permits issued in 2016 were 241,220 compared their barracks by bus on a weekend shopping trip, the to 253,829 issued last year. Al-Mossa justified the army said in a statement. Interior Minister Suleyman drop by the organizational decisions issued by Soylu said a total of 55 people were wounded, six seri- Minister Hind Al-Sabeeh concerning the assessment ously. Television pictures showed the bus reduced to a of companies’ need for laborers. smoldering wreck by the blast, which comes a week Al-Mossa added that according to MSAL’s deci- after 44 people were killed in a double bombing in Istanbul after a football match. That attack was claimed sions, laborers locally sponsored by small projects by Kurdish militants. would be allowed to transfer their residency visas Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said in tele- after working for the same sponsor for a minimum of vised comments that Kayseri attack was “unfortunately one year, whereas those brought from outside similar” to last weekend’s strikes in Istanbul. “All indica- Kuwait would be allowed to transfer to another small tions at present point to the PKK,” Deputy Prime or medium project companies after working for the Minister and government spokesman Numan same sponsor for a minimum of three years. He said Kurtulmus told NTV television. “We have to take into that the Authority had no intentions (at the time account all possibilities but the signs at present point soon) to open - for transfer of commercial visit visas to the PKK.” Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that the and domestic helpers’ visas to work visas. attack was carried out by a “suicide bomber”, without Continued on Page 13 KAYSERI: A public bus is seen burning at the scene of a car bomb attack in central Anatolian city of Kayseri, giving further details. Turkey yesterday. — AP Continued on Page 13 Bin Laden’s son New deal reached for Aleppo and wife denied ALEPPO: A new deal has been reached to Al-Foua and Kefraya in Idlib province are entry into Egypt complete the evacuation of rebel-held besieged by insurgents. The towns of areas of Syria’s east Aleppo which ground Madaya and Zabadani are blockaded by CAIRO: Osama Bin Laden’s son Omar was refused entry to to a halt yesterday over demands from pro-government forces. Egypt yesterday, airport sources said, giving no reason pro-government forces that people also The operation to evacuate fighters and why his name was on a list of people banned from the country. Omar, 34, Osama Bin Laden’s fourth-eldest son, be moved out of two villages besieged by civilians from the last opposition-held was travelling with his British wife Zaina Al Sabah from rebels. Syrian rebel official Al-Farouk Abu area of Aleppo was suspended yesterday, Doha, and they asked to be sent to Turkey, the sources Bakr, speaking from Aleppo to news its second day, after pro-government said. The couple, who lived in Egypt for several months in channel Al-Arabiya Al-Hadath yesterday, militias demanded that wounded people 2007 and 2008 were previously denied entry to the coun- said the deal comprised an evacuation also be brought out of Al-Foua and try in 2008. Omar Bin Laden broke with his father in 2001 from the two Shiite villages besieged by Kefraya, and protesters blocked the road after living in Afghanistan for much of 1996 to 2001. insurgents, the evacuation of wounded out of Aleppo. There were recriminations In an interview with Reuters in 2010, Omar said he people from two towns besieged by pro- on all sides and UN Secretary-General was working with Saudi Arabia and Iran to end his sepa- government forces near the Lebanese Ban Ki-moon said “Aleppo is now a syn- ration from a group of brothers and sisters that dates border, and the full evacuation of rebel- onym for hell”. Rebel sources accused back to the chaos in Afghanistan following the Al-Qaeda held east Aleppo. pro-government forces they identified as attacks of Sept 11, 2001. Omar said Bin Laden’s children A Syrian government official also said Shiite militias of detaining and opening were trying to be “good citizens of the world” but suf- the stalled evacuation of Aleppo would fire on a convoy carrying evacuees from fered from the lack of a father and the stigma of being resume, alongside some evacuations east Aleppo on Friday. the Al-Qaeda leader’s children. from the four besieged towns and vil- Abu Bakr told Al-Hadath the previous None were part of Al-Qaeda, he said at the time. “We lages. “It was agreed to resume evacua- agreement was breached by pro-govern- are working with the Iranian government and the Saudi government at the moment to have my mother’s chil- tions from east Aleppo in parallel with ment militias who detained “hundreds” of dren and grandchildren join us,” he said. Osama Bin the evacuation of (medical) cases from people trying to leave, leading to some Laden was killed at his Pakistani hideout by US comman- Kefraya and Al-Foua and some cases from deaths. A Syrian military source denied dos in 2011 in a major blow to the militant group which Zabadani and Madaya,” said the govern- this, but said a convoy trying to leave United Nations staff and other supporters assemble on UN headquarters grounds, carried out the Sept 11 attacks. — Reuters ment official, part of the evacuations Aleppo was returned back to the city. around a sculpture entitled ‘Non-Violence’, to show their solidarity with the people negotiating team. The Shiite villages of Continued on Page 13 of Aleppo. — AP Artist brings beauty Church attack raises calls to to war-ravaged Gaza uproot bigotry KHAN YUNIS: Dutch artist Marjan Teeuwen walks past a col- Working with Palestinian engineers and artists and the CAIRO: Growing up in Egypt, Mina and other Copts umn formed from rubble to show off her latest creation, a Palestinian Red Crescent, she is “transforming a demolished remember all too well the anti-Christian slurs they barren house in the Gaza Strip where doorless rooms face house into a beautiful sculpture” which will serve briefly as a used to hear at school and on the street. Once, while into bleak, empty space. The ‘Shaath House’ in Khan Yunis in museum. There is one major difference however between playing football, a Muslim youth snatched Mina’s the south of the Palestinian territory was largely destroyed the Gaza house and her previous works, in the Netherlands, necklace and crucifix and stomped on it. “I won’t for- by an Israeli attack in the 2014 Gaza war but Teeuwen, 52, Russia and South Africa. get that day,” said Mina, now in his 30s. Egypt is now specializes in turning unwanted places into works of art. Continued on Page 13 trying to come to terms with the kind of religious bigotry behind a December 11 suicide bombing in a Cairo church that killed 26 people during Sunday mass. “School curricula, some (religious) platforms and the absence of an enlightened current are what have led to this,” said Coptic Church spokesman Boulos Halim. Egyptian authorities have announced the arrest of four jihadist suspects. But the authorities must go much further and address the kind of prejudice run- ning through Egyptian society that for decades has fuelled attacks on Coptic Christians, said Halim. “Police and military power have never been able to erase terrorism. It must be accompanied by the pow- er of thought,” he said. The attack claimed by the Islamic State group was the second church bombing in Egypt since 2011 and only the latest sectarian inci- dent in the Muslim-majority country where Christians have long complained of discrimination. Copts, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s 90-million population, say they are sidelined both in the education system and state institutions. Halim traces the roots of violence against his community to the 1970s, when then president Anwar Sadat empowered Islamists against his socialist opponents. Continued on Page 13 GAZA: Palestinian youths from Gaza’s Free Parkour team, practice their Parkour skills in Gaza City. — AFP LOCAL SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2016 KRCS continues to aid Syrian refugees in Lebanon BEIRUT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society are around one million Syrians refugees in (KRCS) continued yesterday to provide Lebanon escaping from the ongoing war relief aid and assistance to the Syrian in their country raging since 2011.