Kurdish rebels kidnap Turkish lawmaker
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Turkish troops launched a search Sunday for a lawmaker kidnapped by Kurdish rebels near the eastern city of Tunceli, authorities and the lawmaker's party said.
Huseyin Aygun, from the main opposition Republican People's Party, was abducted Sunday evening at a roadblock between the town of Ovacik and Tunceli, said party spokesman Haluk Koc during a televised news conference. A journalist and an adviser traveling with him were set free, he added. "For the first time, a lawmaker has been kidnapped by the terrorist organization," Koc said. "It shows where the level of terrorism has reached." (AP)
