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Posted on 04/21/2007 3:11:12 PM PDT by NYer
Three Christian murder victims were brutally tortured for hours before their death, Turkish media reports reveal.
The Islamic zealots who attacked a Christian publishing house in the city of Malatya on April 18 prolonged the suffering of their victims by stabbing them repeatedly with dull knives, the media report. A Sabah newspaper story notes that one victim, the German missionary Tilman Geske, suffered 156 knife wounds.
An AsiaNews correspondent notes that the Turkish media have provided gruesome details of the crime, but still shy away from mentioning the motivation of the killers, who were apparently influenced by a vitriolic anti-Christian propaganda campaign which still continues in Turkey.
The Hurriyet newspaper reports that the attackers were led by a 22-year-old, Emre Gunaydin, who threw himself from a window to his death before police could capture him. Police are reportedly still looking for several accomplices to the crime, with 10 young men already in custody.
The Sabah story says that the attacks had originally intended to kill the owner of the Zirve publishing house, Martin de Lenge. However, when they could not find him, they killed the three Christian employees who were in the offices.
The leading Islamic figure in Turkey-- who met with Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) during his visit there last November-- condemned the killings. "Murder cannot be justified by religion," said Grand Mufti Ali Bardakoglu. "Such heinous murders are a most grave sin. This is a betrayal of Islam."
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“A Sabah newspaper story notes that one victim, the German missionary Tilman Geske, suffered 156 knife wounds.”
I can’t imagine that poor man’s suffering. And he suffered such treatment because he believed in Christ!
From the turks that know only lucre’ this doesn’t surprise me.
but still shy away from mentioning the motivation of the killers,
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They are Muslims, that is the only motovation they require.
Its a death cult.
Islamo fascists...
The West was always made to believe that Turkey is an enlightened Muslim society. After all, Attaturk established a secular state in which Islam would not play the dominant role that it does in other Middle Eastern countries. It is a member of NATO and fought in Korea on our side. They are really the good guys.
And the BS continues. Hey you “American” Turks, say something in protest of what has happened in “your country”.
While reluctant to condemn persons as a group, every Christian should condemn Islam as an ideology from Hell serving only the ends of Satan.
COMPASS DIRECT.org - COMPASS DIRECT NEWS: Istanbul, Turkey - "TURKEY ARRESTS 20 ALLEGEDLY LINKED TO MALATYA MURDERS" (SNIPPET: "From the beginning of the court hearings, plaintiff lawyers have brought evidence to the court showing the five young suspects were connected to a wider plot to kill the three Christians as well as other key Christian leaders across Turkey. Known as the Cage Plan, the plot is believed to be part of the alleged Ergenekon "deep state" operation to destabilize the government.") (March 18, 2011)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4045246,00.html
(AP)
“5 Turkish officers jailed in killing of Christians”
Published: 03.21.11, 09:04 / Israel News
SNIPPET: “A Turkish court has ordered five active duty Turkish officers and two civilians jailed in a probe into the 2007 killing of three Christians, including a German national.”
“Turkey: trial continues on fourth anniversary of Christians’ murder
ICC Note:
April 18 marked four years since the murder of three Christians in Malatya, Turkey.”
4/18/2011 Turkey
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http://www.inspiremagazine.org.uk/news.aspx?action=view&id=5320
“Turkey: trial continues on fourth anniversary of Christians’ murder”
SNIPPET: “Today marks the fourth anniversary of the murders of Necati Aydin, Ugur Yuksel and Tillman Geske, employees of the Zirve Publishing House in Malatya, eastern Turkey.
The three members of the Malatya Kurtulus Church were tortured and killed by a group of five young Muslims in the office of the Christian publishing company on 18 April 2007.”
SNIPPET: “A step in this direction was taken last month, when 20 people were detained in connection with both the Malatya murders and the ongoing ‘Ergenekon’ case. Ergenekon is an alleged high-level conspiracy to destabilise the Turkish government through acts of terror, including the targeting of minority communities, as outlined in the organisation’s “Cage Action Plan”.
Those recently detained include a university theology lecturer, a non-commissioned officer from the Siirt Provincial Gendarmerie Command, and the retired colonel who commanded Malatya’s Provincial Gendarmerie Brigade at the time of the murders.
Friends and family of the victims, who have long advocated a more in depth examination of these murders, have expressed satisfaction with recent developments, and the hope that the Malatya trial will soon be officially merged with the Ergenekon case. However, the timing of the recent removal from the Ergenekon investigation of Zekeriya Oz, the chief prosecutor who ordered the recent arrests, has raised some anxieties.
The next Malatya hearing is scheduled for 29 April.”
http://www.persecution.org/2013/09/26/turkish-military-linked-to-christian-murders/
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http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2013/09/article_2724558.html/
“Turkish military linked to Christian murders
New evidence provides glimpse into Turkey’s ‘Deep State’”
Published: September 26, 2013 by Barbara G. Baker
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