“No doubt a religious attack that leads us to question ourselves on how tolerant Turkey is with the Christian minorities. The murdered people were Turkish and belonged to a local evangelical Church, a so-called free Protestant Church”: with these words reverend Stuart Windsor, national director of “Christian Solidarity Worldwide”, comments yesterday’s murder of three Christians in the city of Malatya, Turkey. The three people worked for a Christian publishing house, the “Zirve publishing house”. They were found with their throats cut, and their hands and feet tied to a chair. The director of this association, a sort of Christian “Amnesty International” engaged in the fight for the human rights of Christians all over the world, says he is "deeply grieved at the news of the three men whom were brutally murdered in Turkey”. “Our thoughts and our prayers are with their families in this moment”, adds reverend Stuart Windsor. “We hope he concludes the authorities will act quickly to bring the murderers to court and to soothe the escalation of religious extremism that uses violent methods to scare the religious and ethnic minorities in Turkey”.
