TURKISH POLICE PROBE BIBLE KILLINGS AMID SHOCK

L’express.mu, Mauritius
April 20 2007

Turkish police have detained ten people in connection with the killing
of three people, including a German, at a Bible publishing house in
the mainly Muslim country, authorities said yesterday.

The three were found on Wednesday with their throats slit at the
Zirve publishing house in Malatya, a city in the southeast of the
country. Voicing shock across the country at the latest attack on
Turkey’s small Christian minority, a headline in the Milliyet daily
said: "The nightmare continues."

It linked the new attack with the murders of Turkish-Armenian editor
Hrant Dink in January and an Italian priest last year.

Malatya Governor Halil Ibrahim Dasoz told reporters the number of
people in custody had risen to 10 and that all were from the same
age group. He gave no further details.