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  • ANKARA: Turkey Sends Note To Armenia Condemning Shooting Of Shepherd

    TURKEY SENDS NOTE TO ARMENIA CONDEMNING SHOOTING OF SHEPHERD

    Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
    Aug 2 2013

    ANKARA - Hurriyet Daily News
    Sevil Kucukkoşum Erkuş

    The Turkish Foreign Ministry has sent a diplomatic note to Yerevan
    condemning Armenia for using "disproportionate force" after a shepherd
    was shot dead by soldiers patrolling the sealed border.

    The note, sent through Turkey's embassy in Tbilisi as Ankara has no
    diplomatic ties with Armenia, explained how and why the Turkish
    national had illegally crossed into Armenia, and demanded an
    explanation for why "disproportionate force" was used to kill him.

    The 35-year-old shepherd, Mustafa Ulker, crossed over to the Armenian
    side of the border to retrieve a lost sheep and was shot dead by
    Armenian soldiers patrolling the border, Kars Governor Eyup Tepe said
    on Aug. 1.

    Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993 in solidarity
    with Azerbaijan, after Armenia occupied Azerbaijani lands in the
    Nagorno-Karabakh War.

    August/02/2013

    http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-sends-note-to-armenia-condemning-shooting-of-shepherd-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=51888&NewsCatID=338

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