Ahmet Haceroğlu

Year: 2016

Nationality: Iraq

Killed by: Political Group

Location: Kirkuk, Iraq

Press organization: Türkmeneli TV

What's Ahmet Haceroğlu's story?

Ahmet Haceroğlu, of Türkmeneli TV, was killed on October 21, 2016, by a gunshot wound to the chest while covering fighting between Kurdish security forces and Islamic State militants in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, roughly 175 kilometers (108 miles) south of Mosul, a police colonel in Kirkuk told Agence-France Presse. The journalist’s news outlet and police said the shot was fired by a sniper from the Islamic State group.

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