3 killed in attack on publishing house that prints Bibles in Turkey

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The Associated Press
Published: April 18, 2007

ISTANBUL, Turkey: Three employees of a publishing house that distributes Bibles were slain in the latest attack apparently targeting Turkey's Christian minority. ~snip~

Police detained four youths, aged 19-20, and also suspect a fifth, who underwent surgery for head injuries sustained apparently in trying to escape by jumping from a window at Zirve, authorities said.

The five suspects had each had been carrying copies of a letter that read "We five are brothers. "We are going to our deaths. We may not return," according to the state-run Anatolia news agency. ~snip~

In February 2006, a Turkish teenager shot a Catholic priest dead as he prayed in his church, and two other Catholic priests were attacked later that year. A November visit by Pope Benedict XVI was greeted by several nonviolent protests. Earlier this year, a suspected nationalist killed Armenian Christian editor Hrant Dink. ~snip~

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/19/europe/EU-GEN-Turkey-Bible-Attack.php