Thomas Sankara
Turkey 'concerned' over coup in Burkina Faso
Ankara has voiced ?concern? over a military coup in Burkina Faso, saying it ?rejected interventions in politics? through methods that are not democratic.
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Protesters demand justice for 'Africa's Che Guevara'
Hundreds of people placed brooms on the grave of the former Burkina Faso leader Thomas Sankara on Dec. 21 in a symbolic gesture to demand justice for the revolutionary hero killed in a 1987 coup.
Sankara - seen as an African "Che Guevara", who would have been 65 on Dec. 21 - was assassinated during the coup which brought his former friend Blaise Compaore to power.