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Leftists in turkey kill manager of Israeli airline

  • By WITH ANALYSIS FROM MONITOR CORRESPONDENTS AROUND THE WORLD
  • EDITED BY RUTH WALKER

| Istanbul

Leftist gunmen firing automatic rifles killed the manager of the Turkish office of El Al, the Israeli airline, as he drove home from work, police said Thursday. The "Marxist-Leninist Armed Propaganda Group" later claimed responsibility for the killing Wednesday night of Avraham Elazar and accused him of having been a secret agent. The same leftist group also claimed responsibility for the murders of four American servicemen in Istanbul Dec. 14.

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