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By Eric Leijenaar, BosNewsLife Senior Special Correspondent
ISTANBUL/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- There was concern Wednesday, July 16, that Turkish authorities were involved in last year's murder of three evangelical Christians at a Christian publishing house in the city of Malatya.
ISTANBUL, TURKEY (BosNewsLife)-- An evangelical pastor in Turkey faced a possible jail term Wednesday, June 18, just days after a prosecutor began investigating him on charges that included to blasphemy against Islam, Christian rights investigators said.
ISTANBUL, TURKEY (BosNewsLife)-- A Protestant church in the Turkish capital Ankara faced an uncertain future Monday, June 16, after authorities ordered it to close down, rights investigators familiar with the situation said.
ISTANBUL, TURKEY (BosNewsLife)-- The trial has resumed of five men accused of murdering three Christians in south east Turkey nearly one
year ago, amid a legal set-back for relatives of those killed, BosNewsLife learned Tuesday, April 15.
ISTANBUL, TURKEY (BosNewsLife)-- Two Turkish soldiers told a court Thursday, March 20, that they warned of a plot to kill ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink months before the murder happened, but that their superiors refused to prevent the assassination. It came as news emerged that a trial hearing against the suspected murderers of three Christians in southeast Turkey was postponed for another month, after clerics apparently refused to forward a request to replace a judge accused of bias.
ISTANBUL, TURKEY (BosNewsLife)-- Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis ended his historic visit to Turkey Friday, January 25, which he hopes will improve rights for Orthodox and other believers in the country, where several Christians have been killed.
