Fatih Çekirge – SAMSUN In a surgery that could enter global medical literature, the doctor behind its success recounts performing one of the rarest heart operations ever recorded — not in Istanbul or the capital Ankara, but in the northern city of Samsun. “I’ve been in heart surgery since I graduated in 2002,” Doctor Emrah Ereren of Samsun University Hospital stated to the daily Hürriyet, “but this was unlike anything I have ever done before.” The patient, 52-year-old Murat Şanlıer, was