Teenage British tourist fights for his life in Turkey
Held ... cops haul in one of the suspects, Ismail A
A BRITISH teen on holiday was stripped naked and knifed 17 times for kissing a local girl in a Turkish bar.
Dwayne Ward, 17, was last night in intensive care in Marmaris after being “tortured” with wounds to his throat, chest, groin, legs and back.
Lure ... Marmaris beach is popular with tourists
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Two locals, 24 and 26, have been arrested.
Dwayne was able to tell medics tending his naked and bloodied body how he had been savagely attacked.
Held ... Attilay Dincer, 26
The holidaymaker had been found dumped in a small public garden hours after the knife and razor-blade attack.
Hospital wait ... Dwayne's brother, Darren
A police report revealed Dwayne said: “I was having fun while I was out and I kissed a Turkish girl at the bar I was in.
“I went to another bar and that was when they hit me in the head with a hard object.”
He then added: “I don’t remember the rest.”
Dwayne, from Middlesbrough, is thought to have been drinking with his brother Darren, 32, before they became separated.
CCTV footage shows him being grabbed by the arms and bundled down an alley by at least two men in the early hours of Tuesday.
He was found at 7.30am, his clothes ripped from him as he was cut 17 times in the throat, chest, groin, legs and back.
Fellow holidaymaker Sarah Jessop, 44, from Somerset, said: “They tortured that poor boy virtually to death.”
Last night Dwayne was in intensive care, where he was said to have undergone a number of life-saving operations.
Dwayne, Darren and mum Doris, 51, had been in Marmaris only a couple of days.
Speaking from the Ali Baba Hotel, Doris said: “Dwayne’s facing another operation.
“His dad’s flying out from the UK to be with him.”
Holiday stabbing ... Marmaris, on the Turkish Riviera
A hunt involving 270 officers had last night led to two arrests. One suspect is car cleaner Attilay Dincer, 26. The other is a 24-year-old named only as Ismail A.
Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was supporting the family.
UK men drown in Turkey
TWO British holidaymakers have drowned within hours of each other while swimming off the Turkish coast.
Anthony Gissing, 55, and Martin Webb, 69, died in separate incidents less than three miles apart after getting into trouble. Both had to be pulled from the water by lifeguards.
Mr Gissing was seen floating lifelessly near Fethiye, while Mr Webb was at the nearby resort of Oludeniz.
Local police were not treating either death as suspicious. A Foreign Office spokesman confirmed both deaths and said consular assistance was being provided to the families.
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