Wednesday, January 23, 2008

TURKEY: MURDER SUSPECTS BLAME ALLEGED RINGLEADER

Compass Direct News : TURKEY - MURDER SUSPECTS BLAME ALLEGED RINGLEADER
The first of five young Turkish Muslims on trial for torturing and killing three Christians in eastern Turkey took the witness stand last week, vigorously denying that the group had planned to kill the evangelicals.

In chilling testimony of the final hours of Necati Aydin, Ugur Yuksel and Tilmann Geske, accused killer Hamit Ceker stated before Malatya’s Third Criminal Court on Monday (January 14) , that during the savage attack on Zirve Publishing Company’s office on April 18, he saw leading suspect Emre Gunaydin slit the throats of two of the Christians.

Denying that the group of young conspirators had planned to kill the two former Muslims who had converted to Christianity or their German colleague, Ceker told the judge that the confrontation turned “tense” when Aydin, who pastored a small Protestant congregation in Malatya, declared to the five young Muslims, “We are all the children of Jesus.”


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