The fear of a $1 bill

The $1 bill paranoia is quite widespread in Turkey. Seeing that it creates trouble, people now scan their leftover banknotes from trips for $1 bills. Not everybody is a master in tampering with criminal evidence, thus this simple destruction procedure becomes quite an adventure. 

An acquaintance told me what happened to his friend: That person, when he found a $1 bill at home, tried to flush it down the toilet in a rush. Seeing that it would not flush, he had to pick it out of the toilet with his hands. First he dried it with a blow drier and then he lit a match. 

But because he was such a rookie at this, he recorded this action with his phone camera and sent it to his wife. He was happy and feeling "clean" until his wife warned him, "Are you insane?" Then he had to delete all electronic traces. All through this trauma, even though he has no association with Gülenists, he had to go through scary moments. 

Professor Mehmet Altan's lawyer issued a statement about the $1 bills found in his client's house. According to official data from the U.S., in 2015 there were 11.4 billion $1 banknotes circulating in the world. Nearly 1 billion of them were F series. It is impossible to know how many of them are in Turkey.
 
But it is obvious that the scattered $1 bills are causing widespread paranoia. What I am saying is just get rid of them, whatever method you use, but don't flush them in the toilet, they do not go down. 

Instead of meeting Barzani 

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş said that certain HDP deputies would be arrested during the month of October. He said this after speaking to Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani. 

We understand that they went there...