"A Turkish tangle
Apr 19th 2007 | ANKARA AND ISTANBUL
From The Economist print edition
The argument over the presidency of Turkey turns even nastier
WAS it another provocation by the “deep state”—the shadowy alliance of rogue security forces and ultra-nationalist thugs—aimed at stopping Turkey's Islamist prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, from becoming the country's new president? Or the work of Islamist extremists? Speculation raged after yet another attack, on April 18th, on Christian targets, this time a publishing house that distributes Bibles in the city of Malatya. The killers bound the hands and legs of three men and then slit their throats. Two of the victims, one of them German, died immediately; the third died in hospital."
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