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Rebels Free Turk Cop After 3 Months
 Turkish Kurdish rebels released a Turkish policeman from one of their guerrilla camps in northern Iraq yesterday after keeping him hostage for more than three months, human rights activists said. Officer Hakan Acil, 30, was released in the Iraqi border town of Zakho, said Kiraz Bicici, deputy head of Turkeys Human Rights Association. Bicici said Acil was in good condition and cried for much of the ride home.Kurdish guerrillas abducted Acil on Oct. 9 after stopping his car at a roadblock near the southeastern town of Midyat, near the Syrian and Iraqi borders. They did not take his fiancee, who was also in the car at the time. Turkish troops had been searching for Acil for months. He was handed over in Iraq at what Bicici described as a rebel camp. There were a lot of guerillas, she said. Posted by: Fred 2006-01-28 |
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