Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Kurdish descended soldier surviving battle sentenced for life

Thanks to Kenan Erçel, his article below would suffice to sum up the case.

Turkey's Dreyfus Affair (of Sorts)

On October 21, 2007, after an ambush on a military outpost in an Eastern province of Turkey, eight soldiers of the Turkish army were captured by PKK (Kurdish Workers' Party) militants and were taken across the border to Northern Iraq where they were held captive for two weeks before being released. Release, however, didn't bring these eight young men relief. For no sooner were they let go by their captors than they were arrested by the Turkish military, even before they could meet their families and celebrate their safe homecoming against the odds. Twelve other Turkish soldiers were killed in the ambush, alongside thirty PKK militants...

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