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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Death of a girl exposes Turkey’s failures - The National Newspaper

"Death of a girl exposes Turkey’s failures

Thomas Seibert, Foreign Correspondent

* Last Updated: October 14. 2009 11:38PM UAE / October 14. 2009 7:38PM GMT

ISTANBUL // All seemed normal when Ceylan Onkol, a 12-year-old schoolgirl from Turkey’s Kurdish region, led her family’s sheep out of her village one morning last month to let them graze. But then villagers heard an explosion. They rushed to the meadow where Ceylan had been sitting and saw that a grenade had torn the girl’s body apart."

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