Jan 9 (NT - AFP) - Prominent Turkish businessman Ozdemir Sabanci and two colleagues were shot dead Tuesday in an armed raid in Istanbul claimed by an extreme-left group, DHKP-C, Anatolia news agency said. Ozdemir Sabanci is head of the car group Sabanci Holding, Turkey's second biggest industrial conglomerate. The company's director-general, Haluk Gorgun, and a secretary Nilgun Hasefe, were also murdered, the agency said. ce/dy/msa AFP /AA1234/091122 GMT JAN 96

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