Assyrian Priest Abducted In Turkey

Mr. Verenidou · 11-28-2007, 09:49 PM

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Ankara (DPA) -- An Assyrian Christian priest was taken hostage in south-eastern Turkey Wednesday, with the kidnappers demanding 300,000 euros for his release, CNN Turk television reported. Father Daniel Savci, 55, was taken hostage by unidentified people at around 3 p.m. They stopped his car as he was travelling to the Mor Yakup Monastery in a village near the town of Midyat.

The priest's kidnappers later telephoned a different church and demanded a ransom of 300,000 euros.

After years of emigration, especially in recent years of being caught up in fighting between Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels, there are estimated to be only a few thousand Assyrian Christians still living in eastern Turkey.

gmellos · 11-28-2007, 11:47 PM

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Ankara (DPA) -- An Assyrian Christian priest was taken hostage in south-eastern Turkey Wednesday, with the kidnappers demanding 300,000 euros for his release, CNN Turk television reported. Father Daniel Savci, 55, was taken hostage by unidentified people at around 3 p.m. They stopped his car as he was travelling to the Mor Yakup Monastery in a village near the town of Midyat.

The priest's kidnappers later telephoned a different church and demanded a ransom of 300,000 euros.

After years of emigration, especially in recent years of being caught up in fighting between Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels, there are estimated to be only a few thousand Assyrian Christians still living in eastern Turkey.

They ALSO conveniately forgot about the Assyrian MASSACURE as too why the population of the Assyrians have dwindled in Turkey !

Prokomenos · 11-29-2007, 01:03 AM

Absolutely the Assyrians got it real bad in Turkey but yet its hardly ever talked about.

11-28-2007, 09:49 PM	#1
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