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| 3 Killed in Attack on Bible Publishing House in Turkey |
| 2007-04-18 |
| ISTANBUL, Turkey — Attackers killed three people Wednesday at a publishing house that had been the subject of protests for distributing Bibles in Turkey, the government-run Anatolia news agency reported. One person who had his throat cut inside the publishing house and another who jumped from the third floor to escape were taken to local hospitals for treatment, the private Dogan news agency said. Anatolia said one of those taken to the hospital later died. Nationalists previously had protested outside the Zirve publishing house in the city of Malatya, accusing it of proselytizing, Dogan reported. Video footage broadcast on private NTV news channel showed one man being tackled by police outside of the building, and another in a neck brace being loaded into a stretcher. Malatya is known as a hotbed of nationalists and is the hometown of Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981. |
| Posted by:mrp |
| #2 Would not a nationalist seek to preserve such businesses that helps its nation's status and increase its coiffers through taxation? I can see the protesting of proselytizing of any religion, but that would impart being a national secularist, if that is even a correct term. This seems more of the Psylamist types to me. |
| Posted by: SCpatriot 2007-04-18 19:08 |
| #1 Hey, how's that EU membership drive coming along? |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2007-04-18 13:28 |