Turkey: Amnesty International condemns the hostage taking and killing of Istanbul prosecutor

Amnesty International condemns yesterday’s hostage taking and killing of prosecutor, Mehmet Selim Kiraz. The siege by the armed leftist group Revolutionary Peoples’ Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) at the prosecutor’s office at Istanbul’s Cağlayan Court House, ended at aproximately 9pm. Both hostage takers and the prosecutor were killed following a shoot out with police.

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