The rotten health system in Libya is the main cause of the infection on the 426 children with HIV, reads an article in one of Turkey's most weighty social-political magazine Nokta.

The article's author claims that the political authorities in Libya have accused innocent people to protect themselves against the society's reaction, referring to the Bulgarian nurses, sentenced to death in Tripoli for deliberately infecting Libyan children.

The article contains an exact description of the facts around the case.

The responsibility for the infection was first thrown to the secret services of Israel, but when it did not work out, Libya accused the Palestinian doctor and the Bulgarian medics, the author also writes.

According to Bulgarian diplomats this is the first serious article on the case in the Turkish media.

In May 2004, Libya found the five Bulgarian health workers and a Palestinian doctor guilty of having caused the death of 40 children and of infecting almost 400 others with HIV at a Benghazi hospital.

The nurses were sentenced to death by a firing squad, sparkling cries of foul from Bulgaria and its allies the United States and the European Union.

The medics' confessions, which were extracted with torture, is the only evidence proving their guilt.

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