Martyred Turkish Christians Buried
04/30/2007

Additional details about the horrific killing of three Christians in Turkey last week have emerged. A Turkish court has arraigned five men, all under the age of 20, for the murder of three employees of a Christian publishing company in the southeastern city of Malatya.

Alerted by a neighbor who reported a disturbance, police entered the offices of Zivre Publishing on the afternoon of April 18 and discovered German Lutheran missionary Tilmann Geske and two Turkish Christian converts, Necati Aydin and Ugur Yuksel, bound hand and foot. The three men had been tortured for hours, and two of the men were already dead by the time police arrived. The third later died in a hospital. the rest