March 31: A Dark Day in Turkey's History
Posted 1 April 2015 14:44 GMT
31 March, the Courthouse, Istanbul. Photo taken from Demotix, ID: 7257268
March 31, 2015 was an important day for Turkey. As a shock power cut left much of the country in darkness for the day, gunmen took hostage the prosecutor of a case concerning a boy killed during the 2013 Gezi protests and threatened to kill him if their demands for justice were not met. Following an intervention by the Turkish special forces, the hostage and two gunmen died.
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