Tilmann Ekkehart Geske, Necati Aydın and Uğur Yüksel, who were martyred in Malatya on April 18, 2007, were commemorated on the 15th anniversary of their murder on Monday, April 18.
After prayers were said in Malatya Church, Tilman Geske’s grave was visited and prayers and hymns were sung. Afterwards, Uğur Yüksel’s grave was visited in Elazığ and prayers and hymns were sung. Tilman Geske’s wife Suzan Geske and Uğur Yüksel’s mother Hatice Yüksel, Malatya Church, Adıyaman, Elazığ, Diyarbakır Churches and guests attended the program.
Suzan Geske said she felt sorry for the young people who committed the murder of Zirve Publishing House and said, “They are all over 30 now and are in prison. If my husband had lived, we would have been married for 30 years,” she said. Uğur Yüksel’s mother, Hatice Yüksel, told those who came for the commemoration that “my son’s friends came” and expressed her feelings by saying, “My son was a very good person, he was killed only because he was a Christian.”
