The Heroes
Despite being fatally wounded, these policemen, two of them traffic police, fought the terrorists attacking the US consulate in Istanbul and killed three of them. Calik was killed first when one of the attackers opened the door of the police guard house and shot him. The two traffic policemen were working in the area and, hearing the gunshots, ran over to help.
Photos from Zaman
Erdal Oztas, 28, one of the traffic policemen killed yesterday defending the US consulate in Istanbul, had been a policeman less than a year. The photo shows his mother and his wife, who is six months pregnant.
Nedim Calik, 25, had been a policeman for a year and a half and only the day before his death had been promoted to his new position.
Mehmet Önder Sacmalioglu had finished his apprenticeship period and become a traffic policeman fifteen days before his death in the shootout at the consulate.
Two other policemen, Feriz Ozcan and Osman Dagli, were wounded in the two-minute melee and are in the hospital; their condition is stable.
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