TURKEY: SUSPECTS ALL DENY KILLING IN MALATYA MURDERS (Christain martyrs)

– All five culprits arrested last spring for the savage murder of three Christians in eastern Turkey have proclaimed their innocence, declaring they did not personally kill any of the victims. In their court testimonies completed Monday (May 12) at the sixth hearing before Malatya’s Third Criminal Court, the five young Turkish men have defended themselves by blaming each other for the killings. All have insisted that they had not planned to murder anyone and that no individuals or group instigated their raid on the Zirve Publishing Co. office in Malatya on April 18, 2007. (See sidebar below on letter implicating alleged masterminds of the murders.) Turkish Christians Necati Aydin and Ugur Yuksel and German Christian Tilmann Geske were tied up, stabbed and tortured for several hours before their throats were slit. The five suspects were all caught by police at the crime scene. “Our purpose was just to gather information and give it to the press,” alleged ringleader Emre Gunaydin... He claimed they took along knives “only to protect ourselves,” insisting, “If we had wanted to kill them, we would have brought a real gun along with us.” The suspects had three guns, each equipped only to shoot blanks. “I didn’t kill anyone. I just hit them,” Gunaydin said. “And I didn’t order anyone to kill them.” But according to the other four suspects – Hamit Ceker, Cuma Ozdemir, Abuzer Yildirim and Salih Gurler – it was Gunaydin who planned the whole attack, without telling them he had any intentions to kill the victims. In separate court testimonies over the past four months, the four either blamed Gunaydin directly for all three murders or claimed they did not see who had killed certain of the victims. “I remember very clearly Salih slanting his knife, stabbing and twisting it into Ugur’s back,” Gunaydin claimed. He also said Yildirim hit Aydin so hard he blacked out, and that then Gurler tried unsuccessfully to choke the 35-year-old pastor with a rope around his neck. “Salih was hitting him, and I suppose slashed him some,” Gunaydin said. Gunaydin repeated previous claims that the violence exploded when Aydin angered them all by slandering Islam and its prophet Muhammad, and by insisting that Jesus was God.

So they really did not mean to kill them but yet they stabbed them, chocked them and beat the crap out of them and where surprised these Christian martyrs died. The killers are demons.

A classic example from the “religion of peace”, maybe the media means pieces when they say that?

3 posted on 05/14/2008 7:15:18 PM PDT by Siberian-psycho (An oppressed class which did not try to possess arms, would deserve to be treated as slaves." Lenin)

AHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhh. The religion of peace strikes again.

I know I shouldn't, but I rejoice that they will roast in Hell for eternity while Satan reams them with a white-hot poker where the turban don't ride.

Best of all, I can be forgiven for so exulting.

Sweet.

;-/

I can't rejoice in that, my prayer is that they come to the Light of Truth and fall on their knees before Christ in repentance. The Apostle Paul was in the same place these men were, but was wondrously converted and became one of the if not the best missionaries for the Gospel of Jesus Christ the world has ever known.

5 posted on 05/14/2008 7:21:05 PM PDT by Siberian-psycho (An oppressed class which did not try to possess arms, would deserve to be treated as slaves." Lenin)

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