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Terrorists threaten to execute Turkish prosecutor unless police confess to killing boy

Turkey: A far-left Turkish terror group took an Istanbul prosecutor hostage on Tuesday and threatened to kill him, prompting special forces officers to enter the courthouse and police to evacuate the building.

The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) published a picture of the prosecutor with a gun to his head and said it would kill him at 12.36GMT, three hours after gunmen stormed his office, unless its demands were met.

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