Pro-Government Mobs Attack Religious Minorities in Turkey

New Europe ^ | 7/19/16

[marshmallow]

Pro-government mob groups attack religious in the aftermath of the attempted coup in Turkey, a democratic watchdog reports.

Reportedly, in some cases Muslim citizens reacted against the mobs to protect their fellow citizens.

The attacks by Islamist mobs begun on Saturday evening, that is, the evening after the attempted coup had been averted.

Attacks were reported at the Catholic Church of Santa Maria in Trabzon; a second attacks was reported on a Protestant Church in Malatya.

In Trabzon a mob of 10 people attacked the Catholic Church, throwing stones drawn from the pavement. The mob also carried sledge hummers. Fortunately, neighbours had warned the priest of the expected attack. Father Andrea Santoro was killed by another mob in this Church in February 2006.

In Malatya too, the mob attacked the Protestant Church with stones and hammers, trying to enter the building.

Mobs also attacked neighbourhoods of the Alevi Muslim religious minority in Malatya. The police in these cases opened warning shots to disperse the crowd and the mob retreated. Eventually, the police set up barricades in front of neighbourhoods to contain the situation.

[little jeremiah]

Lotta torture going on.

I wish someone, anyone, any country, would just take Bats*** Mad Erdog out.

[tet68]

When the government is islamic, this is what happens.
When I first heard about a coup I was hopeful that there
would be a return to a secular government, then
it became apparent that it was just a “Night of the Long
Knives” in Turkish.

[dfwgator]

[r_barton]

Now we can see the true Turkish “culture” that murdered several million Armenian’s 100 years ago.