Friday, December 30, 2011

Turkey: funerals held after air strike

Turkey: funerals held after air strike

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press – 30 minutes ago

ISTANBUL (AP) — Thousands of mourners gathered in southeast Turkey on Friday for the funerals of 35 Kurdish civilians who were killed in a botched raid by Turkish military jets that mistook the group for Kurdish rebels based in Iraq.

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