The Turkish foreign ministry in a statement posted on its website said on Sunday it had learnt with “sorrow” the execution of Mir Quasem, the chief financier and policymaker of Jamaat-e-Islami. The International Crimes Tribunal handed down the maximum penalty to him for torturing freedom fighters to death as Chittagong’s Al-Badr commander. The Jamaat-e-Islami sided with Pakistan to oppose Bangladesh in 1971 Liberation War. Turkey had earlier called its ambassador in Dhaka to Ankara for consultation following the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami in May. Dhaka also retaliated by calling back its ambassador in Ankara for consultation.

Source: bd News24 September 04, 2016 18:45 UTC