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ISTANBUL - Turkey deported last week a former U.S. marine campaigning against war on Iraq who tried to enter the country using documents describing him as a "citizen of the world", the environmental group Greenpeace said.
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Officials at Istanbul airport refused entry to Ken Nichols, who was a U.S. marine in the 1991 Gulf War and has helped organise Western volunteers to act as human shields at key sites and in populous areas in Iraq. "He has been sent back to Rome," Tolga Temuge, spokesman for a Greenpeace delegation who were to have met Nichols, told Reuters. Other would-be "human shields" travelling with Nichols were admitted to Turkey. The state-run Anatolian news agency said Nichols, who is reported to have burned his own U.S. passport, tried to enter Turkey on documents he said declared him a "citizen of the world". "He was returned to Italy for failing to show a current passport," the agency said. A larger group of "human shields" travelling overland has crossed into Turkey in a convoy including a red double-decker bus on their way to Iraq.
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REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
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