Three publishers killed in Turkey.

The article reports that three publishers were killed in Turkey at Bible specialist Zirve Publishing. Turks Necatin Aydin and Ugur Yuksel, and a German national, Tilman Ekkehart Geske, were found in the company's offices in Malatya, bound and with their throats slit. The International Publisher's As...

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Publicado en:Bookseller no. 5278; p. 16
Autor principal: Rushton, Katherine
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Bookseller Media Ltd 4/27/2007
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Sumario:The article reports that three publishers were killed in Turkey at Bible specialist Zirve Publishing. Turks Necatin Aydin and Ugur Yuksel, and a German national, Tilman Ekkehart Geske, were found in the company's offices in Malatya, bound and with their throats slit. The International Publisher's Association has called the murders an attack on the freedom to publish. The murders come after the slaying of Hrant Drink, a Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor. The murders are said to religiously motivated.