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Hostage drama at Istanbul courthouse ends with two captors, prosecutor dead
[Hurriyet Daily News] A Turkish prosecutor departed this vale of tears in hospital late March 31 after a six-hour hostage drama in which security forces killed the man's captors, two suspected members of an outlawed far-left group.Mehmet Selim Kiraz, the prosecutor in the controversial case into the killing of Gezi victim Berkin Elvan, was taken out of Istanbul's Caglayan Courthouse by security forces after the clash, seriously injured, but died in hospital. "We carried out the negotiation for six hours. But our security forces launched the operation after gunshots were heard while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... congratulated the security forces for the operation, while also noting that Kiraz was shot five times during the episode, with three bullets hitting his head. Erdogan added that the perpetrators stormed the prosecutor's room while "wearing lawyer robes." Early in the day, a photo was released on social media showing someone pointing a gun at the head of Kiraz against the backdrop of a flag of the illegal organization, which was first shared on Twitter by @aysekosan123, suspected to be affiliated with the outlawed far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP/C). The account was hacked soon after. "This account has been seized. Everything is for the TURKISH people," the hackers wrote in a tweet. Various Twitter accounts linked to leftist organizations stated that the DHKP/C grabbed credit for the hostage-taking incident. Posted by: Fred 2015-04-01 |
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