DAR AL ISLAM - TURKEY: FIRST TORTURE, THEN DEATH FOR CHRISTIANS IN TURKEY

Slain evangelists were tortured, says Turkish doctor

MALATYA, Turkey -- Three Protestants murdered at a Christian publishing house in Malatya, Turkey, were tortured for three hours before their assailants slit their throats, a press report said Friday, quoting one of the doctors involved in the grisly case.

Dr. Murat Ugras, a spokesman for the Turgut Ozal Medical center, told the daily Hurriyet of hospital surgeons' fruitless efforts to save Ugur Yuksel, one of the three victims of the massacre at the Zirve (summit) publishing house, which distributed Christian literature.

"He had scores of knife cuts on his thighs, his testicles, his rectum, and his back," Ugras said. "His fingers were sliced to the bone."

"It is obvious that these wounds had been inflicted to torture him," he said. The two others who were killed, Necati Aydin, pastor of Malatya's tiny Protestant community, and German Tilmann Geske, a Malatya resident with his wife and three children since 2003, were also tortured, press reports said.

The abuse lasted for three hours as the five men detained at the crime scene interrogated the three on their missionary activities, they said.

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German, 2 Turkish Converts to Christianity Killed in Turkey Gruesome Attack

A German national and two Turkish nationals, who had converted to Christianity, were slain in the gruesome attack in Malatya, local media reported.

The victims of the attack have been identified as Tilman Ekkehart Geske, 46, Necati Aydin, 35, and Ugur Yuksel.

According to reports, all five of the attackers, who were aged between 19 and 20, were students staying in a dormitory and were preparing to take university entrance exams.

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