Roger Short MVO ( 9 December 1944 &ndash; 20 November 2003 ) was a British diplomat who was killed on 20 November 2003 in a truck bombing in Istanbul while serving as the British Consul-General in Turkey . The bombing killed at least 27 people and may have been targeted directly at Short and his consul staff because they were representatives of the United Kingdom
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Roger Short