Three people working at a Bible publisher in the Turkish province of Malatya were murdered yesterday. Attackers slit their throats. Interior Minister Abdülkadir Aksu immediately condemned the murders saying, “No matter what the reason is, we hatefully condemn this savagery.” He called the murder an “attempt to deal a blow to the atmosphere of peace, stability and tolerance,” which indicates that he suspects that the murder was committed for religious reasons.
An injured man, apparently one of the assailants who jumped from the window to escape police, lies on the ground outside a publishing house in Malatya.
The person in the photo above, one of the murderers, is Emre Günaydın. Besides him, Turkish police arrested four others. The other four are Hamit Çeker, Salih Güler, Abuzer Yıldırım and Cuma Özdemir.
One of the people killed was a German citizen. German Ambassador Eckart Cuntz said in a statement: “I am shocked that a German citizen is among the victims. Even if the exact circumstances of the crime are not yet known, I most strongly condemn this brutal crime.”
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