“The Green Line”

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Mr. Nystad recalls about a time a Turkish soldier was asleep on the job and his officer walked up to him and shot him for his actions.

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I remember, well not a few times, quite a few times I'd have to go to these outposts eh and they'd always have an imaginary line between the Turks and the Greeks, called the green line eh. There's one occasion, I just missed it by about twenty, thirty seconds eh, this... and the Canadian guard commander tried to stop it, I think he was sergeant at the time. He saw this, this Turkish soldier and they were sometimes only five, ten yards apart. They weren't very far apart eh? This Turkish soldier fell asleep on duty and the Turkish officer....., well the Canadian sergeant saw him eh and he's trying to warn this guy but he was trying to warn him indirectly because you're not supposed to talk to these people, you know, directly and he saw the Turkish officer walking up to the guy, taking out his gun, "pume" bullet right in back of his head. A Turkish officer apparently is allowed to shoot three of his men a month if they do something incompetent like that. Like, and the Canadian sergeant, he was just shook up, well I don't blame him, I wouldn't want to see somebody get shot like that, you know.

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