Tajikistan's opposition leader was shot dead by unidentified persons in Istanbul, Turkey.
Umarali Kuvatov, who lives in exile in Turkey, was shot in the head on Thursday (05/03).
Group named 24, against the government of President Emomali Rakhmon, banned in Turkey since October.
Tajikistan accused Kuvatov with multiple criminal charges and asked him to be extradited, but Turkey refused.
Turkish officials never detained in December on charges of visa violations, not long after he was re-released.
The murder occurred two days after the court Tajikistan punish one
member of a group of 24 to 17-year prison sentence as a result of an
attempted coup and insulting the president.
Anti-terror police said they are investigating this murder.
Poisoned
Media reported that Kuvatov was having dinner with his family at the shooting scene.
After the meal he felt sick and fell into the street, and then he was shot, according to an eyewitness.
The opposition explains that Kuvatov wife had told relatives of murder
before he and his son lost consciousness due to poisoning.
Police said he died before the police arrived at the scene.
Kuvatov previously known to be close to President Rakhmon law from
2001 until 2012. They were both supplying fuel to NATO troops in
Afghanistan.
But the two later fell out, forcing Kuvatov into opposition and leaving the country.
The archaeologists and international organizations expressed anger
against the destruction of the ancient city of Assyria, Nimrud, by a
group calling itself the Islamic State in Iraq or ISIS.
On Thursday (05/03) ISIS - which controls parts of Iraq and Syria -
began to destroy the site that was established in the 13th century BC,
said Iraqi officials.
Irina Bokova, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) condemned the destruction of
"systematic" in Iraq as "war crimes".
"This is an attack on the Iraqi people, which reminds us that no one
is safe from the cultural eradication in the country. All being
targeted: human lives, minorities, and is characterized by the
systematic destruction of ancient cultural heritage," Bokova said.
ISIS said shrines and ancient statues are "religious art" that must be destroyed.
"They're erase our history," said Iraqi archaeologist Lamia al-Gailani. Gailani said Nimrud is one of the most important sites in Iraq.ISIS also sell artifacts
Nimrud is located approximately 30km to the southeast of Mosul.
Many of the artifacts found there had been moved to the museum in
Baghdad and outside the country, but still much left at that location.
As an act of cultural vandalismes, attempt to destroy Nimrud been
compared with the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues rock by the
Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, the BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut, Lebanon.
In addition to destroying artifacts, ISIS also sell and trade is one of the sources of their income.Profile Nimrud
The ancient city of Assyria on the Tigris River
The capital of Assyria for about 150 years
The first excavations in modern times is done by Europeans began in the 1840s
Treasure obtained from excavations including royal palaces, statues and small artifacts
Investigation stopped for several decades, but in 1949 Sir Max Mallowan (husband writer Agatha Christie) start a new excavation
Photos of the remaining property made extensively in the 1970s
