The Reuter Library Report, January 15, 1990
Copyright 1990 Reuters
The Reuter Library Report
January 15, 1990, Monday, BC cycle
LENGTH: 135 words
FOUR EUROPEAN CONVERTS TO ISLAM FINED FOR DRUGS IN CYPRUS
(NICOSIA, Jan 15, 1990) A court in breakaway northern Cyprus has fined
four west European members of Islam's main mystical sect for trafficking
in and using hashish.
Police identified them as Tyra Christina Lucia Quersel, 37, of
Stockholm, Sonia Andrea Cherguri, 27, of Hamburg, Hans Peter Michael
Karpets, 37, of Salzburg, and Sylvia Kneisz, 20, of Vienna.
The Turkish-Cypriot court sentenced them last Friday to fines of one
million lira (about 430 dollars) each or three months in jail.
The four converted to Islam and are followers of Sheikh Adil Nazim, a
prominent leader of the Nakshibendi sect. They have been living on the
sheikh's property in northern Cyprus along with other Western converts.
The sect, with 13th Century origins in central Asia, has a strong
following in Turkey but is shrouded in secrecy.
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Note: Muhammad Nazim Adil of Cyprus is the "grandsheikh" of the Kabbani
movement.
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