Our Friends Martyred in Afghanistan

Faruk Aktas, coordinator of IHH’s Asia Desk and Bahattin Yildiz, our project coordinator in Afghanistan martyred in the airplane crash near Kabul.

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Search teams in Afghanistan have reached the wreckage of the passenger plane belonging to Pamir Airlines that crashed on the 17^th of May, 2010, in a remote mountain site called Salang Pass, north of the capital Kabul. Faruk Aktas, coordinator of IHH’s Asia Desk and Bahattin Yildiz, our project coordinator in Afghanistan martyred in the airplane crash. The arrival of the bodies to Turkey will take a while as the identification process still continues.

Faruk Aktaş was IHH Asia Desk Responsible and one of activist of MAZLUMDER. He was helping MAZLUMDER to prepare Afghanistan report and some translation work.

MAZLUMDER General Chairman Ahmet Faruk Ünsal went to Afghanistan to witness rescue and identification process.

Heavy snow, dense fog and steep mountains hindered rescuers who fanned out across mountainous terrain to search for the wreckage. Helicopters, despite numerous attempts, could not pass through the dense fog and heavy snow. On the 5^th day following the accident, the helicopters were finally able to reach the crash site and unfortunately there was no sign of life.

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