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Turkish police detain 10 over Bible killings
19 Apr 2007 08:01:01 GMT
Source: Reuters
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ANKARA, April 19 (Reuters) - Turkish police have detained 10 people in connection with the killing of three people, including a German, at a Turkish Bible publishing house in the southeast of the mainly Muslim country, authorities said on Thursday.

Three people were found at the publishing house in Malatya with their throats slit. The killings shocked Turkey, which is still struggling to improve rights for minorities.

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A boy hugs his mother as they stand next to a portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, while watching an anti-government rally in western Turkish city of Manisa May 5, 2007. Tens of thousands of flag-waving Turks demonstrated on Saturday in the third anti-government protest in a month amid a bitter conflict over the role of religion in the mostly Muslim country's politics.


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