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    ANTI-TERROR POLICE FOIL ALLEGED PLOT TO KILL CHRISTIAN CLERIC IN ISTANBUL

    Hurriyet
    March 7 2011
    Turkey

    Istanbul police's anti-terror unit apprehended two suspects accused
    of plotting to assassinate a priest in the city's Fatih district,
    Dogan news agency, or DHA, reported Saturday.

    Law enforcement officers alleged that a suspect who was identified
    only as E.T., and who was reported to be under 18 years of age, offered
    18-year-old Okan G. 50 Turkish Liras to kill the unnamed priest.

    Police raided the suspects' homes in Istanbul's Gaziosmanpasa district
    and detained the pair, seizing two guns in the process. Officers later
    revealed that one of the guns could be altered to shoot metal balls.

    The suspects were later taken for questioning at the Istanbul Police
    Department on Vatan Avenue in the Fatih district.

    The plot comes after several Christian figures were killed in Turkey
    between 2006 and 2010. Andrea Santoro, a Catholic priest stationed in
    the Black Sea province of Trabzon, was shot and killed by a 16-year-old
    youth while praying at the city's Santa Maria Church. One year later,
    the editor-in-chief of the bilingual weekly Agos, Armenian-Turkish
    journalist Hrant Dink, was allegedly killed by Ogun Samast, who later
    confessed to the crime.

    In April 2007, Christian missionaries Necati Aydin, Ugur Yuksel
    and German citizen Tilmann Geske were reportedly tortured before
    being murdered at the Zirve Publishing House in the eastern province
    of Malatya.

    Last year, Italian Bishop Luigi Padovese, the vicar apostolic of
    Anatolia in Turkey, was allegedly murdered by his private driver in
    the southern district of Iskenderun.




    From: A. Papazian
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