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    TURKISH NEWSPAPER CLAIMS FERRY HIJACKER WAS ARMENIAN

    epress.am
    11.16.2011 12:42

    The suspected Kurdish rebel who hijacked a passenger ferry heading
    for Ä°stanbul on Friday after it left the northwestern port city of
    Izmit was ethnically Armenian, reported Turkish daily Vakit on Tuesday.

    There were no casualties aboard the Kartepe, which was carrying
    18 passengers on board, as well as four crew and two trainees,
    authorities said.

    Turkish commandos in civilian clothes slipped onto a hijacked passenger
    ferry and posed as hostages before fatally shooting Mesut (or Mensur)
    Guzel, who was carrying explosives, in a 12-hour drama that ended
    before dawn Saturday, AP reports.

    Vakit claims that Guzel was born in an old Armenian village called Kulp
    in Diyarbakır province, and that his grandfather's name was Hagop.

    As reported by Epress.am's Istanbul correspondent, the article has
    become the subject of heated discussion and criticism by members of
    the Turkish press who say that to claim the hijacker was Armenian is
    a hate crime against Armenians.

    Furthermore, some journalists and bloggers state that claiming that
    Armenians are connected to all criminal incidents is Vakit's policy.

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