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Turkey hands protest note to Armenia over border incident (UPDATE)

Politics Materials 2 August 2013 15:52 (UTC +04:00)
On Friday, Turkey handed over a protest note to Armenia in connection with the incident on the Armenian-Turkish border, resulting in death of a Turkish citizen, Hürriyet newspaper reported.

Details added (the first version was published at 15:41)

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On Friday, Turkey handed over a protest note to Armenia in connection with the incident on the Armenian-Turkish border, resulting in death of a Turkish citizen, Hürriyet newspaper reported.

According to the newspaper, the note was delivered through the Turkish Embassy in Georgia.

Turkish shepherd Mustafa Ulker died after being wounded by the servicemen of Armenian Armed Forces on July 31.

The shepherd, residing in the Turkish province of Kars, accidentally crossed the border with Armenia while looking for a missing animal and was fired at by Armenian servicemen. He was later detained.

The head of Akkaya district administration of Kars province Osman Ugurlu reported that as a result of negotiations between the Commander of the Turkish border battalion with the Armenian side, Ulker's body was transferred to Turkey.

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