Three missionaries killed in the Zirve Publishing House massacre were subjected to close surveillance by the gendarmerie before their murder in 2007, according to Malatya Governor’s Office records that were recently appended to an indictment into the case, Hurriyet reports.
The records of provincial security meetings held by the governor’s office between 2006 and 2008 revealed that authorities believed that missionaries in the eastern province were “the most serious threat to security” even though there have been fewer than 15 of them in the area since February 2006.
The meetings were attended by the National Intelligence Agency (MİT) department chief, gendarmerie commander and local chief of police.
Turkish Christians ‘under watch’ before Zirve massacre
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