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    Turkish shepherd shot down on Armenian-Turkish order turns out to be Azeri
    by Tatevik Shahunyan

    ARMINFO
    Saturday, August 3, 13:40

    The Turkish shepherd shot down by Russian border guards on Thursday
    when attempting to illegally cross the Armenian-Turkish border was an
    Azeri, the kaimac of the Turkish town of Akyaka Osman Ugurlu told
    journalists on Friday.


    Earlier the Turkish Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the shooting
    of the shepherd and called on Armenia to show "good sense" in its
    relations with neighbors. "There is no valid explanation for the
    excessive use of Armenian force in such an ordinary event," the
    Ministry said.


    Hurriyet Daily News reported that the 35-year-old Turkish shepherd
    Mustafa Ulker crossed the border in an attempt to retrieve a lost
    sheep, while Spokesperson of the Frontier Department of the Russian
    Federal Security Service in Armenia, Sergey Grechin, said that Ulker
    fired at the Russian frontier guards and then tried to go deeper into
    the Armenian territory. The Russian frontier guards returned the fire
    and wounded the shepherd. The Frontier Department of the Russian
    Federal Security Service in Armenia is investigating the incident.


    Spokesman of the Armenian Foreign Ministry Tigran Balayan said that
    the Armenian Foreign Ministry had extended its condolences over the
    death of the shepherd and had expressed hope that no such things would
    heppen in the future. Balayan did not specify through what diplomatic
    channels the Armenian Foreign Ministry sent the note - for there are
    no diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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