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Turks Crack Down After Prosecutor Killed

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Taken hostage by militants.

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Authorities in Turkey detained 22 members of a far-left militant group Wednesday, after its members took a Turkish prosecutor hostage because of disagreements over the handling of a politically sensitive case. The prosecutor, Mehmet Selim Kiraz, was later killed in a rescue mission, as were his two captors. Intelligence agents reportedly got alerts of impending similar operations by the Marxist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front.

Read it at The Indian Express