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    Today's Zaman, Turkey
    Dec 31 2008

    Ä°zmir court hands down 4 years to assailant of priest


    An Ä°zmir court has sentenced a 19-year-old man to four years in
    prison for stabbing a Roman Catholic priest last year in western
    Turkey.

    The court sentenced defendant Ramazan Bay on Monday and fined him for
    carrying the switchblade knife used in the attack. Bay stabbed the
    65-year-old Italian priest in December 2007 after a mass at a church
    in Ä°zmir and surrendered shortly after the attack. The priest
    survived.

    Turkey's small Christian community has been targeted in recent years
    in several attacks, including one last year in which three Christians
    -- two of them Turkish converts -- were killed in the central city of
    Malatya. Another Italian Catholic priest was shot and killed in 2006
    in Trabzon. In addition, Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was
    slain last year in Ä°stanbul by a nationalist gunman.



    31 December 2008, Wednesday
    TODAY'S ZAMAN WITH WIRES Ä°STANBUL
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