{"id":2069,"date":"2007-04-18T16:09:14","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T16:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/04\/tragedy-in-turkey.html"},"modified":"2007-04-18T16:09:14","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T16:09:14","slug":"tragedy-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/04\/tragedy-in-turkey.html","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vicious attack at a Christian publishing house:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Assailants killed four people late Wednesday morning at the offices of Zirve<\/em>, a Christian publishing house that distributed Bibles in the city of Malatya, Hurriyet<\/em> online reported. Three of the four victims had their throats cut, one of them Zirve<\/em>\u2019s owner. The fourth victim died after jumping from the third floor where he was working in order to escape.<\/p>\n

Still under shock, Zirve<\/em>‘s general manager Hamza Ozant was on his way to the publishing house\u2019s offices but was able to tell a TV network that his company had been receiving threats. Started a year ago, it had already requested police protection for its employees. One reason is that many people in Turkey resent the publication and distribution of Bibles in Turkish. <\/p>\n

Although Mr Ozant said he could not say who made the threats, suspicions fall on Turkish ultra-nationalists, especially since the murder of Turkish Armenian journalist Dink Hrant. <\/p>\n

Coincidentally, both Mr Hrant and Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, were born in Malatya.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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