SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2017 SHAWWAL 22, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Egypt police Muguruza stuns probe motives Venus to win of Red Sea first Wimbledon beach attacker6 crown16 MoH hits out at ‘sabotage’ Min 31º Max 48º amid fake doctor reports High Tide 04:38 & 16:07 Low Tide MoI begins operating new traffic cameras 10:33 & 23:01 32 PAGES NO: 17280 150 FILS By Hanan Al-Saadoun Turkey marks year since ‘epic’ coup defeat KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health yesterday condemned efforts to discredit its services and malign the integrity ISTANBUL: Turkey yesterday marked one year since the of its staff. A statement issued by the ministry urged citi- defeat of the coup aimed at ousting President Recep zens and residents not to pay heed to attempts to Tayyip Erdogan, seeking to showcase national unity undermine public confidence in the country’s healthcare and his grip on power in an increasingly polarized soci- services. The statement noted that the ministry ety. The authorities have declared July 15 an annual “reserves the right to mount legal action against all national holiday of “democracy and unity”, billing the those involved in sharing untrue and baseless informa- foiling of the putsch as a historic victory of Turkish tion that is detrimental to its reputation”. The ministry democracy. “It’s one year since the darkest night was added that it is open to all suggestions and complaints turned into an epic,” Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told a regarding the quality of healthcare provided in the state. special session of parliament that kicked off a day of Earlier yesterday, a ministry official said that the min- celebrations set to last until dawn. istry was handling with “full urgency and concern” He said the night of July 15 was a “second War of alleged social media reports of a foreign national posing Independence” after the war that led to the creation of as a doctor. The ministry has made contacts with several the modern Turkish state in the ruins of the Ottoman bodies in order to gather information before issuing a Empire in 1923. Two hundred and forty nine people, not statement regarding the rumors, ministry spokesman including the plotters, were killed when a disgruntled Ahmad Al-Shatti said in a statement. Shatti added that faction in the army sent tanks into the streets and war those revealed to have been involved in the incident planes into the sky in a bid to overthrow Erdogan after and allowing it to take place will face legal charges. one-and-a-half decades in power. Separately, the Interior Ministry’s Relations and But they were thwarted within hours as the authori- Security Information Department said the traffic depart- ties regrouped and people poured into the streets in ment has begun operating new traffic cameras on major support of Erdogan, who blamed followers of his ally- roads, including the Fifth Ring Road near Avenues mall, turned-nemesis, the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen. Qurtuba; Fourth Ring Road near Surra; and King Fahd Erdogan, at the center of the commemorations, took Road near Bayan Palace. It said the new cameras monitor part in a “people’s march” on the Istanbul bridge across ISTANBUL: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine Erdogan walk to a ceremony site on the speeding in all lanes in both directions, including the Continued on Page 11 July 15 Martyrs Bridge (Bosphorus Bridge) yesterday. — AFP emergency lanes. France wades into Gulf row Paris aims to be ‘facilitator’ in crisis talks DOHA: France’s foreign minister yester- counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin day called on Qatar’s neighbors to imme- Abdulrahman Al-Thani. Maths ‘genius’ diately lift measures impacting thou- In early June, Saudi Arabia, the United sands of people in the Gulf, becoming Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties Mirzakhani dies the latest foreign diplomat to visit the with Qatar and moved to isolate the region and attempt to find a resolution small, but wealthy Gulf nation, canceling WASHINGTON: Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian-born to a crisis that has dragged on for more air routes between their capitals and mathematician who was the first woman to win the than a month. Jean-Yves Le Drian said in Qatar’s and closing their airspace to coveted Fields Medal, died yesterday in a US hospital Doha yesterday that Paris wants to assist Qatari flights. Saudi Arabia also sealed after a battle with cancer. She was 40. Mirzakhani’s Kuwait-led mediation on the crisis. Qatar’s only land border, impacting a key friend Firouz Naderi, a former director of Solar Systems “France should be a facilitator in the source of food imports in the mostly Exploration at NASA, mediation” led by Kuwait, Le Drian told desert nation. announced her death on reporters following talks with his Qatari Continued on Page 11 Instagram. “A light was turned AMMAN: Protestors chant slogans in the Jordanian capital yesterday during a demon- off today. It breaks my heart ..... stration against the closure of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. — AFP gone far too soon,” he wrote, later adding: “A genius? Yes. Tight security in Jerusalem as But also a daughter, a mother and a wife.” holy site closed after attack Mirzakhani, a professor at Stanford University in JERUSALEM: Security forces locked keeping Al-Aqsa mosque closed is “dan- California, died after the can- Maryam Mirzakhani down parts of Jerusalem’s Old City yes- gerous” and “unprecedented”, a day after cer she had been battling for terday and an ultra-sensitive holy site Amman on Friday called for its immedi- four years spread to her bone marrow, Iranian media remained closed after an attack that ate reopening. Hundreds of Jordanians, said. In 2014 Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal, the killed two police officers and heightened responding to a Muslim Brotherhood equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Mathematics, which is Israeli-Palestinian tensions. Three Arab call, demonstrated in Amman after mid- awarded by the International Congress of Israelis opened fire on Israeli police day prayers yesterday, calling for the “lib- Mathematicians. The award recognized her sophisticat- Friday in the Old City before fleeing to eration of Al-Aqsa”. ed and original contributions to the fields of geometry the nearby Haram Al-Sharif, where they Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin and dynamical systems, particularly in understanding were shot dead by police. Israeli authori- Netanyahu has indicated the site will stay the symmetry of curved surfaces such as spheres. ties said they had come from the flash- closed until at least today while security Born in 1977 and raised in Tehran, Mirzakhani initial- point holy site, which includes the Al- was assessed, and rejected Jordan’s criti- ly dreamed of becoming a writer, but by the time she Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock, cism. “Instead of denouncing the terrorist started high school and showed an affinity for solving to commit the attack. attack, Jordan chose to attack Israel,” math problems she shifted her sights. “It is fun - it’s like The authorities took the highly unusu- Netanyahu was quoted as saying by offi- solving a puzzle or connecting the dots in a detective al decision to close the Al-Aqsa mosque cials, and called for restraint. Netanyahu case,” she said when she won the Fields Medal. “I felt compound for Friday prayers, leading to also spoke of increasing security at that this was something I could do, and I wanted to anger from Muslims and Jordan, the holy entrances to the site when it reopens - pursue this path.” site’s custodian. Wael Arabiyat, Jordan’s likely to be a controversial move. Continued on Page 11 DOHA: Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani meets French Minister of Islamic affairs minister, warned that Continued on Page 11 Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian in the Qatari capital yesterday. — KUNA Honolulu tower blaze kills three HONOLULU: Flames ripped through three The Honolulu Star-Advertiser newspaper also built in the 1970s and did not have a floors of a Honolulu tower block, killing said a mother and her adult son were sprinkler system. Images posted online on three people including a mother and her among the three people who perished on Friday showed orange flames raging on sev- adult son on Friday, officials and media said. the 26th floor, where the fire started. At least eral floors and debris falling from windows. The blaze at the 36-storey Marco Polo con- 12 other people were injured, it added. There were no immediate reports on what dominium complex sent thick black smoke Fire Chief Manuel Neves told reporters caused the blaze in Honolulu. pouring over the city, a month to the day that the building did not have a sprinkler “We were all trying to help as much as after a deadly high-rise fire in London. system. “Without a doubt if there was sprin- we could ... but there was a fire and you Firefighters sprayed water onto the flames klers in this apartment, the fire would be could see it spreading,” said 72-year-old res- from nearby balconies and brought them contained to the unit of origin ... the unit ident Karen Hastings, who was in the build- under control at about 6.30 pm local time (where) the fire started,” he said. More than ing when the fire broke out. One firefighter (0430 GMT yesterday), four hours after the 100 firefighters tackled the fire and officers and four residents were taken to hospital fire began, Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell were conducting a room-by-room search, a while eight other residents were treated at told reporters.