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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