Body Of Turkish Engineer Erdem Taken To Ankara

ANKARA - Body of Turkish engineer Tolga Erdem, who was killed in Afghanistan, was taken to Ankara on Monday.
Relatives of Erdem handed over his body at Ankara's Esenboga Airport.
He will be laid to rest in Ankara tomorrow.
Erdem, 29, was killed when unidentified assailants attacked his car along the Kabul-Kandahar highway in Shahjoy district on March 5, 2004. Another Turkish engineer was kidnapped in the armed attack. They were working on a U.S.-funded project to pave the highway. Erdem's body was taken from Afghanistan to Baku yesterday.
(UK-AÖ) 08.03.2004