Posted on 04/17/2007 8:28:56 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
ISMAIL AK
Dr. ISMAIL AK is a Professor of Psychiatry at a university in Turkey. His research interests include the following:
Personal Disorders, Agresivve behavior and self-mutilation, ECT, Substance-related disorders, Sexual Disorders, Forensic Psychiatry, Sleep Disorders
From the Turkish Association of Psychopharmacology website:
President-elect:
Professor Ismail AK, M.D. Head, Department of Psychiatry, KTU School of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey
Ismail AK is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Head, Department of Psychiatry, KTU School of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey
He is an experienced on clinical psychopharmacology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.
Dr. Ismail Ak is one of the authors of an article about patients with mental disorders, psychotic features, etc.:
As regards pharmacotherapies, 354 (50.2%) were given antidepressants. . . . Among antidepressants, Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) were 72.8%. . . .
This is an abstract of an article co-written by Dr. ISMAIL AK:
Even though all psychiatric disorders do not have the same potential with regard to committing a crime, the number of individuals having psychiatric disorders is gradually going up depending on the increase of crimes and violent behaviors committed in a society. . . . The relation between existence of psychiatric disorder and crime behavior has been significantly emphasized in several earlier studies. In conclusion, it is notable that the rates of committing crime for the individuals with psychiatric disorders are on the rise.
Dr. Ismail Ak is apparently one of the world's leading experts on the psychiatry of antisocial and suicidal behavior, psychotic and bipolar disorders, psychopharmacological therapy, etc.
The young man had been noticed to be disturbed and had been referred to counseling. Dr. Ismail Ak is an expert and author in the particular field most directly related to the guy's disorder.
So it's possible that the writing on the guy's arm said
ISMAIL AK
and the K was written in a way that people *thought* it said
ISMAIL AX
That seems more likely to me than a connection to Moby Dick or to Islamic terrorism or to Cooper’s story.
This is an angle the investigators need to pursue with the school's counseling service, the killer's computer, and Dr. Ismail Ak himself.
This could be another Freeper scoop! First Buckhead and now maybe Henrickson!
Dear Dr. Ak,
As you know, we here in America have just had a terrible tragedy in which a disturbed young man, Mr. Cho, shot and killed over 30 people, including himself. It has been reported that he had written on his arm the words, ISMAIL AX.
Since you are a leading expert on the subjects of suicidal tendencies, conduct disorders, antisocial behavior, depression, medications, etc.--all issues that affected Cho--I am wondering if he could have come across your name. ISMAIL AK, when written on one's arm, could look like or be misread as ISMAIL AX. Do you know if Cho may have been given your name by someone at Virginia Tech or that he may have known about your name in some other way? Perhaps he was doing his own research (Internet, library) on the issues that troubled him and that was how he came across your name.
On the other hand, there may be no connection at all. Perhaps the mysterious "ISMAIL AX" was not a reference to your name but something entirely different. I just find it coincidental that your name would be so close and that you would be an authority on the very issues that plagued him.
I thank you for your time, Dr. Ak, in reading this message, and if you care to reply I would appreciate it. People here in America are just trying to come up with any possible explanation for the strange details in this tragic case.
I'll let you guys know if I get a reply from Dr. Ak.
Very well written. Perfect!
Here's a 23-page background (PDF) on the hospital UNIVERSITY in Turkey where he allegedly works...
i.e. Ask Ak.
LOL.
While we’re on the subject of psychiatrists, I very briefly knew a shrink in La-La Land. Anyway, I once gave him and his son (about 9 years old) a ride. Well, the kid was sitting up front next to me in the passenger’s seat and the shrink was in the back. The kid was sort of harmlessly making a few jokes about his father. Then the shrink asked me to speed up my car a bit which I did. Then he quickly leaned over, and opened the front passenger door and tried to toss his kid out of the car while screaming angrily at him. I immediately hit the brake and sort of went into a state of shock. I mean it was his own son he was trying to toss out of the car and for what? Just for some harmless ribbing. It was then that I realized that many shrinks are probably NUttier than their own patients.
In any event, if your Ak theory holds up, it will now be hard to deny who came up with that scoop in the first place.
I don’t do HTML very well, but it would be a good time to insert Bill the Cat saying, “Ack”. We could also have some airplanes flying in formation going through “Ack Ack”. Lotsa freepers know how to do this stuff, so I’ll just leave it to them...
The very next article (although not by Ak) in that same issue of DEATH STUDIES was "DEATH ON CAMPUSES".
I kid you not.
OK, this is getting too weird. . . .
Wow! If your Ak theory pans out they can't deny that you were the source of this. Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if the MSM denies you as the source thrice before the cock crows.
So maybe Professor Ak is like the Turkish version of Dr. Buddy Rydell.
That would make sense
The biggest difficulties with it are these: 1) Did the writing clearly say "AX" and not "AK"? We don't know. 2) Why would Cho put on his arm the name of a psychiatric expert--even one who wrote on the issues that troubled him? 3) There are other hypotheses worth checking out (Melville, Cooper, Islam, gaming, etc.).
' At that point I turned my attention to the empty cashier's booth again. Suddenly I noticed something on the floor behind the window. The cashier was crouching down. I said to him, "Hey, what are you doing there?"
At first he didn't get up so I continued, "Are you nuts? Why are you crouching down? I need to buy some gas? Get up! Willya?"
Finally the cashier stood up and proceeded to inform me that the guy I was yakking away to was in the middle of an armed robbery when I began talking to him. The cashier had crouched down and below some metal in there so as not to be shot. And idiot me was chatting away with the robber who couldn't believe I was talking his ear off and asking to be shown how to take apart his gun in the middle of a robbery.
Of course, I had absolutely no awareness that there was a robbery going on when while it was attempted.
bttt
...unless he thought about shooting up the school 2-3 years ago, googled “campus shooting death(s)” and arrived at Ismail Ak and/or the research/work of his colleagues and eventually began corresponding with him.
Just don’t know at this point in time. But let's stay on it, of course.
Melville. They call me Ismael. However, if you see the movie version, Orson Wells did an INCREDIBLE job as the saltwater reverend giving the sermon about Jonah and the Whale? You ever see it? If you actually listen to the sermon, it is very moving. Of course, Wells did an incredible acting job. Maybe the best sermon I ever saw or heard.
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