Turkish foreign ministry identified the victim of a shooting shown on a web-posted video as Murat Yuce, a cleaner working for the Bilintur catering company.

The video shows a hostage who identified himself as Yuce and as blindfolded was being shot in the head by one of three hooded gunmen as they shout Allahu Akbar (God is Greatest).

The masked man fired two more bullets into the victim's head after he fell to the ground, his face down in a pool of blood.

Diplomatic officials said Yuce had been kidnapped by the Tawhid wa al-Jihad (Unification and Holy War) group affiliated to the Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

News of the execution by a group linked to suspected Al-Qaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi prompted a major Turkish truckers' organization to announce it would stop ferrying goods to US forces in Iraq.
Murat Yuce worked as a cleaner for the Bilintur catering company, which subcontracted for a major holding company known as Tepe transporting goods to US soldiers in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. However, the kidnappers had not addressed any demands concerning him, a company's spokesperson said.
Another two Turks - Abdurrahman Demir and Sait Unurlu, both of them truck drivers - are still being held in Iraq by militants linked to Zarqawi who have threatened to execute them. A third driver, Tevfik Alkan, is also missing amid reports that he recently came under attack on a road betwen Baghdad and Tikrit.

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