A Turkish court has acquitted a noncommissioned gendarmerie officer in the case of an 18-month-old toddler who was killed when a tear gas canister struck him in the head on the balcony of his home in southeastern Turkey in 2009, the Mezopotamya news agency reported. The Cizre 4th Criminal Court of First Instance ruled at the eighth hearing of the trial that there was insufficient evidence to convict Specialist Sgt. Hakan Alkan on charges of “inv…
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