Roger Short

Roger Guy Short (9 December 1944 – 20 November 2003) was a British diplomat who was murdered on 20 November 2003 in an Al-Qaeda terrorist truck bombing in Istanbul while serving as the British Consul-General in Turkey. The bombing is likely to have been targeted directly at Short and his consular staff because they were diplomatic representatives of the United Kingdom. Two bombs exploded within five minutes of each other, one at the British consulate, the other at a local branch of HSBC Bank. A statement issued by the Office of the Istanbul Governor Public Order Operations Centre on the day of the attacks reported that 27 people had died (11 at the HSBC General Directorate, and 16 at the British Consulate) with more than 450 people injured. On 24 November the Istanbul Provincial Health Directorate confirmed the total number injured and hospitalised as 462 people, of whom 30 were still receiving treatment, 6 of them in a critical condition.