Trial brings Malatya missionary murders back into spotlight

Yesterday's trial included an emotional outburst from the widowed wife of Necati Aydin, who screamed at the suspects in the courtroom, and was escorted out by security officials. The deaths of Necati Aydin, Ugur Yuksel, and German citizen Tilmann Geske caused huge reverberations across Turkey at the time, as all three men had had their throats cut, and the suspects involved in the murder were very young. According to some of the testimony offered up yesterday by one of the suspects in the case, part of the reason for the murders was the shared belief by the young men that "missionary activities in Turkey had reached dangerous levels."Â