(GEN) TURKISH COURT SENTENCES MAN TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR KILLING ITALIAN ARTIST.KOCAELI, Jun 25, 2009 (TUR tur: see ibex. ) -- A criminal court in Turkey gave Thursday lifetime prison sentence to a man who was found guilty of raping and killing an Italian performance artist. The Italian artist, Pippa Bacca, was found dead on April 11, 2008 after being raped and then killed by Murat Karatas, a Turkish truck driver. Bacca departed from Milan in March 2008 together with a fellow artist Silvia Moro on a "Brides on Tour" journey, with both wearing bridal gowns and hitchhiking Hitchhiking (also known as lifting, thumbing, hitching, autostop or thumbing up a ride) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking people (usually strangers) for a ride in their automobile to travel a distance that may either be a short or long distance. from Italy through southern Europe Southern Europe or sometimes Mediterranean Europe is a region of the European continent. There is no clear definition of the term which can vary depending on whether geographic, cultural, linguistic or historical factors are taken into account. and the Middle East, with the intention of meeting up together at the end in Jerusalem. (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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