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Turkey: Journalist shot two weeks ago in
Diyarbakir riots dies
18.4.2006
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New York, April
17, 2006 - Journalist Ilyas Aktas died on April 14
in an Ankara hospital two weeks after he was shot in
the head during protests in the predominantly
Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, in southeast Turkey
(Kurdistan-Turkey), local and international media
reported.
The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by the shooting
and is still investigating the circumstances
surrounding it.
Media reported that at least 13 civilians were
killed during the protests which lasted two weeks.
Aktas, 24, a reporter for the left-wing newspaper
Devrimci Demokrasi (Revolutionary Democracy), was
hit March 30 during clashes between security forces
and Kurdish demonstrators. Doctors declared him
brain dead.
The protests, which continued into early April, were
sparked by the funerals of four Kurdish guerrillas
killed in clashes with Turkish forces.
Devrimci Demokrasi’s owner and editor Erdal Guler
told the Turkish press freedom organization Bia that
Aktas was in Diyarbakir to cover the protests. He
said witnesses saw Aktas being shot during the
clashes in which demonstrators threw stones and fire
bombs.
However, CPJ is still investigating reports Aktas
may have been a participant in the protests.
www.cpj.org
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