Turkey Investigates Alleged Ties Between Police, Alleged Killers of Christians

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey has launched an investigation into alleged collusion between police officers and at least one of the suspects charged with killing three Christians earlier this year at a publishing house that produces Bibles, an official said Saturday.

Two senior police inspectors will be assigned to investigate whether any officers provided assistance to the suspects, an Interior Ministry official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. He did not provide further details.

The three Christians — a German and two Turks — were killed in the southern city of Malatya on April 18. The killings — in which the victims were tied up and had their throats slit — drew international condemnation and added to Western concerns about whether Turkey can protect its religious minorities.

Five people were arrested and charged with murder. The trial opened last month, but was quickly adjourned until Jan. 14 because defense attorneys requested more time to prepare their arguments.

The Interior Ministry decided to open an investigation after several newspapers published stories Saturday alleging cooperation between police and at least one of the suspects.

On Thursday, Turkish newspapers published scanned copies of documents proving the statements of a police chief to be a lie.

Of course Turkish newspapers are speaking out. For example this article continues:

"'Everybody has some sort of responsibility in the correction of this shameful situation, but the biggest responsibility lies with Interior Minister Beşir Atalay,' he added, calling on the minister to take a brave step and get to the root of the Malatya murders, although that root might well be made up of parts of the state or the security forces."

There's even more that here in the U.S., with Dems in charge, the newspapers' publishers just might get a letter from Dingy Harry and his rambunctious boys and girls. To wit,

"Suspects in the investigation of the brutal killing of three Christians at Zirve Publishing House in Malatya in April of last year have links to numerous individuals in the state, including security officers, the police and even prosecutors, but the most surprising link they have is to an academic. Ruhi Abat, a research assistant at Malatya UniversityÂ’s Department of Theology, was accused in a letter -- signed by a man named Ali A. -- of having incited Emre GÃ¼naydın, one of the three suspects captured at the site of the murder."

Off topic...but I just can't help myself, even in Turkey the Globull warming scam is at work:

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