TURKEY: ITALIAN PREMIER URGES ANKARA TO 'SAFEGUARD' DEMOCRACY IN WAKE OF KILLINGS
Rome, 19 April (AKI) - Italian prime minister Romano Prodi, referring to attacks against Christians in Turkey including Wednesday's murder of a pastor and two of his parishioners in the central eastern city of Malatya, has urged the Ankara government to maintain a greater "surveillance" over the "rules of democracy," in the country. Police in Malatya have arrested some 10 people in connection with the triple murders - the victims were found with their arms and legs bound and with their throats slit - in the Zirve publishing house that has been involved in distributing Bibles.
"My reaction is the same as when [Italian Catholic priest Andrea] Santoro was killed [in February 2006 in the Turkish Black Sea port Trabzon]: on the one hand pain and mourning, on the other a serious invitation to the Turkish government to maintain surveillance over the rules of internatonal democratic cohabitation," Prodi said Thursday speaking from the South Korean capital Seoul which he is visiting.
...
Pertinent Links:
1) TURKEY: ITALIAN PREMIER URGES ANKARA TO 'SAFEGUARD' DEMOCRACY IN WAKE OF KILLINGS
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment