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Former IS Hostage: 'You Give in to Feeling of Death'

Bunyamin Aygun doesn't have to imagine the horror of being an Islamic State hostage. He was one. For 40 days from late 2013 to the beginning of last year, the Turkish photojournalist was held by what was then known as ISIS. "In the end, you give into the feeling of death," he told VOA Turkish by Skype from Istanbul. "It was a deep agony you felt, an immense pain .. because you know, they are going to kill you sooner or later. Your chance of survival is one in a...

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