
Bilal Balci, a former municipal civil engineer at Turkey’s Adiyaman municipality, who was last month handed a ten-year suspended prison sentence and released on bail conditions for his role in the collapse of the city’s Isias hotel , on Monday requested to be released from those conditions to be able to go on the Hajj .
A total of 72 people, including 35 Cypriots, of whom 24 were children, were






