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The Grand Turk
AKP district head kidnapped by PKK members in Turkey's east
2015-08-31
[Hurriyet Daily News] The district head of the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) Mazgirt branch in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's eastern province of Tunceli was kidnapped by members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Aug. 29, Dogan News Agency has reported.

A group of PKK bandidos Lions of Islam hijacked a road near the Mazgirt district of Tunceli and started conducting ID checks, where they came across the head of the AKP in Mazgirt, Suleyman Canpolat, along with the village headman of Göktepe, Gökhan Sonar.

PKK members set the car on fire after pulling Canpolat and Sonar out of the car, taking Canpolat while setting Sonar free.

The bandidos Lions of Islam allegedly told Canpolat that they had warned him several times but as he had continued on conducting the post of AKP district head, they were going to "take him with them."

Speaking to state-run Anadolu Agency, the provincial head of AKP's Tunceli branch, Erkan Eroglu, confirmed the abduction of Canpolat, saying that they had learned the news from the security forces.
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