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AIRPORT: None of the attackers managed to
get past security checks at the terminal’s entrance
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“The indings of our secu-
rity forces point at the Daesh
organization as the perpe-
trators of this terror attack,”
Yildirim told reporters at
the airport, using the Arabic
name for IS. “Even though
the
indications
suggest
Daesh, our investigations are
continuing.”
Yildirim said the attackers
arrived at the airport in a taxi
and blew themselves up after
opening ire. Asked whether
a fourth attacker might have
escaped, he said authorities
have no such assessment but
are considering every possi-
bility.
The victims included some
foreigners, he said, adding
that many of the wounded
have minor injuries but others
are more badly hurt.
Another Turkish oficial
said two of the attackers
detonated explosives at the
entrance of the international
arrivals terminal after police
ired at them, while the
third blew himself up in the
parking lot.
The oficial, who also
spoke on condition of
anonymity in line with
government
regulations
and cited interior ministry
information, said none of
the attackers managed to get
past security checks at the
terminal’s entrance.
Turkish airports have
security checks at both the
entrance of terminal buildings
and then later before entry to
departure gates.
Roads around the airport
were sealed off for regular
trafic after the attack and
several ambulances could be
seen driving back and forth.
Passengers were left sitting on
the grass outside the airport.
Hevin Zini, 12, had just
arrived from Duesseldorf,
Germany, with her family and
was in tears from the shock.
“There was blood on the
ground,” she told The Asso-
ciated Press. “Everything was
blown up to bits... if we had
arrived two minutes earlier, it
could have been us.”
South
African
Judy
Favish, who spent two days
in Istanbul as a layover on
her way home from Dublin,
had just checked in when she
EARTHQUAKE: More than
90 percent of the state’s fuel
supply would be destroyed
Umatilla County’s power
would be out for six to
eight weeks.
More than 90 percent
of the state’s fuel supply
would
be
destroyed.
Internet, television, cell
phone service and other
forms of communication
would be down, and trans-
portation to the west side of
the state would mostly be
limited to helicopters after
the destruction of roads,
highways and bridges.
To prepare for that
situation, Franell said
Umatilla County residents
and businesses could help
greatly by having enough
food, water, batteries and
other supplies stockpiled
to help themselves through
the irst few weeks.
“Our goal is not to be
an additional burden on
recovery efforts,” he said.
In addition to storing
emergency
supplies,
Franell said residents
should
make
sure
top-heavy furniture is
secured to the ground or
to walls and buy an inex-
pensive harness to secure
their hot water heater to
the wall, preventing inju-
ries and preserving the 50
gallons of water inside for
use afterward.
He suggested busi-
nesses have plans in
place for how to resume
operations as quickly as
possible after a disaster. He
said they should encourage
their employees to be
AP Photo/Emrah Gurel
Passengers embrace each other as they wait outside Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, early
Wednesday following their evacuation after a blast.
AP Photo/Emrah Gurel
Turkish forensic police oficers work at the scene of a
blast outside Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, late Tuesday.
heard an explosion followed
by gunire and a loud bang.
She says she hid under the
counter for some time.
Favish says passengers
were ushered to a cafeteria
at the basement level where
they were kept for more than
an hour before being allowed
outside.
Two South African tour-
ists, Paul and Susie Roos
from Cape Town, were at the
airport and due to ly home at
the time of the explosions.
“We came up from the
arrivals to the departures, up
the escalator when we heard
these shots going off,” Paul
Roos said. “There was this
guy going roaming around,
he was dressed in black and
he had a hand gun.”
Yildirim said air trafic
at the airport, which was
suspended after the attack,
had resumed to normal.
The prime minister called
for national unity and “global
cooperation” in combatting
terrorism.
“This (attack) has shown
once again that terrorism is a
global threat,” Yildirim said.
“This is a heinous planned
attack that targeted innocent
people.”
He suggested that the
attack was linked to what he
said was Turkey’s success
against Kurdish rebels as
well as steps Ankara took
on Monday toward mending
strained ties with Israel and
Russia.
“It is meaningful that this
heinous attack came at a
time when we have become
successful in the ight against
separatist terrorism ... and
at a time when we started a
process of normalizing ties
with our neighbors,” Yildirim
said.
Yildirim insisted there
was no security lapse at the
airport but said the fact that
the attackers were carrying
weapons “increased the
severity” of the attack.
The private DHA news
agency said the wounded,
among them police oficers,
were transferred to Bakirkoy
State Hospital.
The series of recent attacks
in Turkey have been linked
to Kurdish or Islamic State
group militants, including
two in Istanbul targeting
tourists that authorities have
blamed on IS.
Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport
was the 11th busiest airport
in the world last year, with
61.8 million passengers,
according to Airports Council
International. It is also one of
the fastest-growing airports in
the world, seeing 9.2 percent
more passengers last year
than in 2014.
The largest carrier at the
airport is Turkish Airlines,
which operates a major hub
there. Low-cost Turkish
carrier Onur Air is the second-
largest airline there.
back up to a level the state
considers acceptable.
“Financially, we’re back
in good health,” he said.
Enrollment
is
still
trending
downward,
however, with a ive percent
decrease between fall 2014
and fall 2015. And the
state has asked the school
to submit a comprehensive
report by Dec. 1, 2017, to
show it has developed “a
clear institutional focus and
durable niche” within the
state university system.
As EOU looks to play
to its strengths to increase
enrollment (and, by exten-
sion, revenue), Umatilla
County seems almost tailor-
made to its efforts. Insko
said the county factors
“signiicantly” into EOU’s
vision for the future.
The university has been
working to draw more
Hispanic students to its
campus, particularly those
who might otherwise have
believed college was out
of reach. Based on its high
Hispanic student popu-
lation, the university in
2014 chose Hermiston as
one of two cities to pilot a
program called Bienvenidos
EOU. The program invites
Hispanic students and
their families to a bilingual
evening of questions and
answers about applying for
college and inancial aid.
Gina Galaviz, a bilingual
Hermiston native, heads up
EOU’s recruiting efforts as
director of admissions. She
said she tells students how
EOU was a good it for her
because of its small classes,
personalized connections
between students and staff
and comfortable distance
from home.
EOU’s online presence,
including social media, has
been ampliied in the last
couple of years. But Galaviz
said that her ofice’s work
to build solid connections
to high school counselors
around the state has been
“We do put a
really large focus,
once students get
here, to have them
have that global
experience.”
— Gina Galaviz, EOU
director of admissions
more important.
“It’s not just about the
billboards, it’s about the
one-on-one
relationships
people in Eastern Oregon
seem to value,” she said.
Her connection to Herm-
iston helps her there, she
said. Four of EOU’s direc-
tors on its board of trustees,
which took over governance
from the state board of
higher education last year,
are also from Umatilla
County and have brought
their personal networks to
the table.
She said a lot of students
in Eastern Oregon feel that
going to a school so close to
home will limit their hori-
zons. So the university has
worked hard to beef up its
global programs, working
with students to help them
experience studying abroad
or doing internships over-
seas.
“We do put a really large
focus, once students get
here, to have them have
that global experience,” she
said.
Insko also mentioned
the global experience,
particularly a new global
food systems management
program the university
has added after working
with agricultural producers
in Umatilla County. The
program, he said, was an
example of EOU’s efforts
to offer students majors and
minors that will help them
gain jobs in Eastern Oregon
if they want to stay, or else-
where if they want to leave
the region.
He said the university
continues to reine its
marketing and a new
campaign is in the works,
focused on the teacher
education program that
EOU is best known for.
Insko said the goal is to
highlight not only the
program’s quality, but also
the number of teaching
jobs readily available in the
region.
“When you look at the
demand relative to our grad-
uation numbers, there’s an
opportunity there,” he said.
“That supply and demand is
very favorable for us.”
Insko also said the addi-
tion of men’s soccer and
men’s and women’s wres-
tling has raised the school’s
proile and helped attract
bright student athletes who
may have gone elsewhere.
“With the women’s
(wrestling) program, we’re
on the leading edge with
that,” Insko said.
He said through Eastern
Promise, which allows high
school students in the area
to take classes that double as
college credit, the university
has formed a close part-
nership with area schools,
including Blue Mountain
Community College.
The university is working
with community college
counselors to give them
an intimate understanding
of EOU’s requirements
for graduation. Sometimes
students start at a commu-
nity college and then get to a
university only to ind they
didn’t take quite the right
courses to align with the
requirements of their major,
Insko said. Now BMCC staff
can help students transition
seamlessly from BMCC to
EOU and graduate within
four years of starting their
college education.
The types of programs
EOU is trying often take
time to work. A student
who attends Bienvenidos
EOU as a junior or starts
BMCC with an eye toward
transition to EOU won’t
immediately show up in
— Joe Franell, Eastern
Oregon Telecom CEO
prepared at home, ensuring
they can return to work
as quickly as possible as
the state begins recovery
efforts. He also suggested
that some employees
get certiied in Incident
Command Systems so that
they will understand how
the recovery efforts will
work and the language that
will be used.
The hard truth is,
he said, a years-long
rebuilding of Oregon
would generate substantial
inancial opportunities for
businesses ready to help
instead of needing help
themselves.
“Don’t you want to be
prepared, so you can reap
the economic beneits of
helping with recovery?” he
asked.
The presentation was
part of the Hermiston
Chamber of Commerce’s
monthly
Business
to
Business luncheon, which
pairs networking oppor-
tunities with educational
talks targeted toward
businesses.
———
Contact Jade McDowell
at
jmcdowell@eastore-
gonian.com or 541-564-
4536.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Kwong’s Cafe has been a staple in Pendleton since
the 1970s but will shutter its doors on July 24.
KWONG’S: Looking for new
opportunity outside of food service
EOU: University has been working to draw more Hispanic students
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“Our goal is not
to be an addi-
tional burden on
recovery efforts.”
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EOU’s enrollment numbers.
But Insko said if people
give them time, he believes
the initiatives are close to
bringing more students to
the college.
“I’m very optimistic
about the future of Eastern
because there are so many
opportunities with what
we’re doing,” he said.
———
Contact Jade McDowell
at jmcdowell@eastorego-
nian.com or 541-564-4536.
“We worked here so
much, he (became) my best
friend,” she said of Kwong.
At 42, Kwong said he’s
looking for a new opportu-
nity, laughing when Price
jokingly suggested he open
a steakhouse.
“Probably not food
service,” he said.
———
Contact Antonio Sierra
at asierra@eastoregonian.
com or 541-966-0836.
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worked at Kwong’s Cafe
from 1999-2008 before
returning as a server a few
months ago.
Price echoed Kwong’s
sentiments, saying that she
has grown close with the
family and some of their
loyal customers, some of
whom have come to the
restaurant over three gener-
ations.
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