The owner of a leading Persian-language satellite entertainment channel based outside of Iran was shot dead by unknown individuals in Istanbul in an unexplained assassination, Turkish media reports say.
Said Karimian, the owner of the GEM TV Group and a British citizen of Iranian origin, was gunned down late Saturday along with a Kuwaiti business partner in the upscale Maslak district of Istanbul, the Hurriyet newspaper says.
Initial reports on Saturday had said two Iranians had been killed, without giving the identities.
In a statement on its Facebook page, GEM TV confirms that Karimian had died, but without making clear the circumstances of the death.
“With great sorrow and regret we announce the death of Said Karimian,” it says, describing him as a “great man who with a pure and kind spirit spent his life with honesty and sincerity for dignity of Iran.”
— AFP
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