:John Christopher Turner
{{short description|American citizen (born 1947)}}
John Christopher "Chris" Turner (born 1947) is an American citizen who is notable for his activities in Afghanistan.
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|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/world/asia/29afghan.html?_r=1&hp
|title = Guarded Afghan Hotel Proved All Too Vulnerable
|work = New York Times
|date = 2009-10-28
|author = Sabrina Tavernise, Sangar Rahimi
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20151026024139/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/world/asia/29afghan.html?_r=1&hp
|archivedate = 2015-10-26
|url-status = dead
{{cite news
|url = https://www.thestar.com/news/world/afghanistan/article/717302--taliban-attacks-un-guest-house-in-kabul
|title = Taliban attacks UN guest house in Kabul
|publisher = Toronto Star
|date = 2009-10-28
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20091031210820/http://www.thestar.com/news/world/afghanistan/article/717302--taliban-attacks-un-guest-house-in-kabul
|archivedate = 2009-10-31
|first = Allan
|last = Woods
|accessdate = 2010-05-06
|url-status = dead
{{cite news
|url = https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091028/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan
|title = UN workers scramble over roofs during Kabul attack
|publisher = Yahoo News
|date = 2009-10-29
|author = Robert H. Reid, Heidi Vogt
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20091029185332/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091028/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan
|archivedate = 2009-10-29
|url-status = dead
{{cite news
|url = http://www.wtop.com/?sid=1796967&nid=105
|title = US contractor says he fights off attack in Kabul
|publisher = WTOP
|date = 2009-10-28
|author = Hamza Hendawi
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110611225734/http://www.wtop.com/?sid=1796967&nid=105
|archivedate = 2011-06-11
|url-status = dead
{{cite news
|url = http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/asia_pacific/view.bg?&articleid=1207993&format=&page=2&listingType=intasia
|title = US contractor says he fights off attack in Kabul
|publisher = Boston Herald
|date = 2009-10-28
|archiveurl = https://archive.today/20091029050458/http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/asia_pacific/view.bg?&articleid=1207993&format=&page=2&listingType=intasia
|archivedate = 2009-10-29
|url-status = dead
}}
Biography
During the Soviet–Afghan War, Turner is reported to have served with the anti-Soviet Afghan Mujahideen.
Turner is reported to have uploaded a YouTube video where he describes meeting Osama bin Laden, in 1984, when both men were foreign volunteers, helping to fight Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers.
Turner speaks Pashtun and wears a turban and a beard.
On October 28, 2009, while Turner was working for an Afghan trucking firm, he was staying at the Bakhtar guest house when it was attacked by a suicide attack from a band of Taliban.
Turner described hearing the initial gunfire from the 6am attack, grabbing his AK-47, and waking as many of the other guests as he could, guiding them to the guest house's laundry room, and helping them escape. He said that he and a Nepalese man had held off the attackers while the guests he had roused escaped. Five guests, three attackers, and two of the guest house guards died during the attack.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}