Iraq sentences two persons who killed Turkish diplomat to death

Iraq sentences two persons who killed Turkish diplomat to death
# 11 February 2020 12:31 (UTC +04:00)

Court handed out the death sentence to the PKK terrorists who killed Turkish diplomat Osman Kose in the Iraqi autonomous region's capital Irbil in July 2019, APA reports quoting Daily Sabah

"The 2nd Criminal Court in Irbil has charged six people in connection with the killing of an employee of the Turkish Consulate and two other citizens at the Huqqabaz Restaurant in Irbil. Two of them were sentenced to death," the website said in a piece.

Four other defendants were sentenced to one year in prison each.

According to the restaurant's owner, the attacker - in plain clothes and carrying two guns - targeted the Turkish diplomats dining in the restaurant.

Note that the attack occurred at the Irbil branch of Huqqabaz, a popular restaurant in an upscale and high-security area only a five-minute drive from the Turkish Consulate on the airport road.

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