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BERZA SIMSEK, Associated Press RAPHAEL SATTER, Associated Press

September 30, 2014

Hostage tale suggests IS wary of upsetting Turkey

SILOPI, Turkey (AP) — Turkish truck driver Ozgur Simsek was sleeping off a 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) fuel run to the Qayara power station in Iraq, he said, when he heard banging

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