It was not immediately possible to verify the claim made by Qari Yousaf Ahmadi.
No body has been retrieved.
Ahmadi claimed militants killed Asimi in the Yakhthal area of Helmand Province after his company failed to meet demands for it to leave Afghanistan.
Neither the company nor Turkish authorities were immediately available for comment.
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