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Journalist wounded in S. Ossetia loses vision
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A Turkish journalist wounded in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia while covering the recent clashes between Russian and Georgian forces there has lost sight in one of his eyes, news reports say.
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Private Kanaltürk reporter Levent Öztürk was among four Turkish journalists that came under fire last week in South Ossetia. Öztürk, who was wounded in the head during the attack, told reporters on Saturday that he had had an operation earlier in the day, and that he was now blind in his left eye. But Öztürk was upbeat and said he wanted to get back to his job as soon as he recovered. "My left eye will not see again. But I have another eye. Soon we'll be working together again," he told colleagues in his hospital room. Another of the injured journalists, Günay Ervin of Kanaltürk, has been discharged from the hospital. Öztürk spoke to reporters during a visit by a group of Turks of Georgian descent to his hospital room. The group, comprising members of the Georgian Culture Center Association, staged a demonstration earlier in the day in downtown İstanbul to protest the Russian military action in Georgia. Russia occupied the Georgian city of Gori after driving Georgian forces out of South Ossetia in response to a Georgian offensive in the breakaway region.
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