Hürriyet Daily News has an interesting story about a man who refused to sell his house to the Turkish government at half value. The highways directorate wants to demolish the house to complete their new thoroughfare. Experts have valued the property at 170,000TL; the directorate have offered the man only 80,000TL. So far he has refused to move, and they’ve left his house in the middle of the proposed route, but obviously he’s now living in constant fear that an accident (or an “accident”) will render him penniless and homeless. Link