Muslims in Turkey murder three Christians
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ISTANBUL, Turkey—In a gruesome assault against Turkey’s tiny Christian community, five young Muslim Turks entered a Christian publishing office in the southeastern province of Malatya April 18 and slit the throats of the three Protestant Christians.
Two of the victims, Necati Aydin, 36, and Ugur Yuksel, 32, were Turkish converts from Islam. The third man, Tilmann Geske, 46, was a German citizen.
The following day the Turkish press reported that four of the five young men, all 19 to 20 years of age, admitted during initial interrogations that they were motivated by both “nationalist and religious feelings.” “We did this for our country,” an identical note in the pockets of all five young men read, Channel D television station reported. “They are attacking our religion."
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