TURKEY SENDS NOTE TO ARMENIA CONDEMNING SHOOTING OF SHEPHERD
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Aug 2 2013
ANKARA – Hurriyet Daily News
Sevil Kucukkoþum Erkuþ
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
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