05 March 2011
Two arrested in Turkey over alleged plot to kill Christian
Turkish anti-terrorism police have arrested two men suspected of plotting to kill a Christian religious figure in Istanbul, the Anatolia news agency reported Saturday.
They were picked up in a raid on an apartment in Gaziosmanpasa, a working-class district on the European side of the city, the report said, adding that police seized two pistols.
Several violent and sometimes lethal attacks have targeted Christians in mainly Muslim Turkey in recent years.
Last year a 26-year-old Turk was convicted of the stabbing death of the then head of the Catholic Church in Turkey, Luigi Padovese
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