[DAWN] The head of an Iranian satellite television network who last year was sentenced in absentia to six years in prison by a Tehran court was rubbed out in Istanbul together with a business partner, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
’s Dogan news agency said on Sunday.
GEM TV founder Saeed Karimian and an associate were driving in Istanbul’s Maslak neighbourhood after 8pm (1700 GMT) on Saturday when their car was blocked by a jeep and shots were fired, Dogan said.
Mr Karimian was found dead by emergency services arriving at the scene, it said. His associate was taken to hospital but could not be revived.