16/02/2022
Today in History: Yakup Mete
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16/02/2022
Syriac resident of Tur Abdin, Yakup Mete, was killed 28 years ago today in Midyat by the Hezbollah counter-guerrilla.
The Turkish Hezbollah, with no direct links to the Lebanese Hezbollah, carried out extrajudicial executions, kidnappings, and torture in the 1990s.
The killers of Yakup Mete have never been found.
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