84 - year - old walks eight miles per day to read the newspaper

Ahmet Ali Demirel, 84-year-old from the town of Guce in the northeastern Turkish province of Giresun, walks a six-mile street every day in order to read newspapers.

From Demirel's home, which is passionate about reading, the distance to the corner of newspapers in downtown is four miles.

Demirel, father of six children and grandfather of 32 grandchildren, leaves the house every day in the afternoon and walks an hour and a half to get to the center. He runs newspapers in the one corner in the small town, and on the eve of the evening, he comes home again.

In a proposal for AA, he shows that all developments in Turkey and the world, from childhood, are followed only by reading the newspapers.

Demirel has never given up this information tool, even though radio and television were also popular, it says.

“I want reading, and for this reason, I have not given up my habit of reading the paper, despite technological developments. Development in and out of the country every day follows by the press”, Demirel says.

He shows that the town has only one newsstand and that it runs four miles of hard work to get there.

I don't know. This steep, hilly road and difficult with love. I walk a road of about eight miles, round and return”, Demirel says.

He says that from time to time, there are people who stop cars and offer to take him to the center, but he refuses this offer from the habit of walking.

Ahmet Ali Demirel points out that he feels no fatigue at all and that the emotion to go read newspapers keeps him on his feet.