Saw this all over the Italian news last night. EU nations are already a little uneasy about Turkey joining up, and this certainly doesn't help the cause.

Three slayings jar Turkish Christians
By Laura King

Los Angeles Times
BURHAN KARADUMAN / IHLAS NEWS AGENCY/AP



Turkish police officers detain a suspect Wednesday after a fatal attack at a Christian publishing house in Malatya, Turkey.

ISTANBUL, Turkey — In a gruesome attack that sent shockwaves through Turkey's tiny Christian community, assailants Wednesday slit the throats of three men at a publishing house that distributes Bibles and other Christian literature.

Five youths were detained at the scene in the conservative eastern city of Malatya, Turkish authorities said. One news report said the alleged attackers carried notes indicating their motive was right-wing nationalism.

Turkey's sometimes hostile stance toward its religious and ethnic minorities has been a persistent source of concern to Western governments as the country presses ahead with its campaign for entry into the European Union.

While the government officially preaches tolerance, it historically has failed to rein in virulent ultranationalist groups. Authorities were accused of ignoring repeated death threats against Hrant Dink, an ethnic Armenian newspaper editor who was gunned down outside his offices in Istanbul in January. Prosecutors later said a teenager confessed to the shooting.

At the Zirve publishing house in Malatya's city center, police discovered the three victims bound hand and foot, tied to chairs with their throats cut. Two already were dead; the third died at the hospital.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm..._turkey19.html

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"A theory that explains everything, explains nothing"

I'd rather be a Christian in Turkey than a turkey on Christmas.

Or something.