Ankara – Turkey on Thursday recalled its ambassador to Bangladesh after the Asian country hanged a senior Jamaat-e-Islami party leader in Dhaka, news report said.
The report said that the ambassador, Devrim Ozturk, arrived in Istanbul and went to Ankara for consultations with the Foreign Ministry.
Turkish President, Recep Erdogan, said on a live television broadcast that the country was deeply saddened by the execution, and had recalled the ambassador in Dhaka.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry had in a statement strongly condemned the execution of Motiur Nizami.
Nizami was hanged at the Dhaka Central Jail on Wednesday after he was convicted of atrocities during Bangladesh’s war of independence with Pakistan in 1971. (Xinhua/NAN)