Iraqi Kurdish security arrest man behind shooting Turkish diplomat -statement

Reuters
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ERBIL/SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, July 20 (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdistan's internal security service has arrested the main culprit behind the deadly shooting of a Turkish diplomat in the regional capital Erbil, it said on Saturday.

"The Kurdistan Region announced on Saturday the arrest of the man who planned the assassination of a Turkish diplomat in a restaurant in Erbil, less than a week after the attack," the Asayish security service said in a statement. (Reporting by Azad Lashkari in Erbil and Ali Sultan in Sulaimaniya; Writing by Ahmed Aboulenein Editing by Gareth Jones)