Tag:Turkey

America ups the ante over Pastor Brunson’s detention

By WorldWatch Monitor - The American Charge d’Affaires in Ankara has said that Turkey’s continued detention of pastor Andrew Brunson on spying and terrorism-related charges...

WH Protest Demands Freedom for U.S. Pastor Jailed in Turkey

WASHINGTON, DC – Christians gathered in front of the White House on Wednesday to show support for Andrew Brunson, the American-born pastor jailed in...

Turkey Turns On Its Christians

By Ann-Christine Hoff - Middle East Forum-Middle East Quarterly Summer 2018 Volume 25: Number 3While Christians make up less than half a percent of Turkey’s...

Turkey bans Wikipedia for documenting regime’s backing of ISIS

By World Tribune - Turkey has imposed a ban on Wikipedia after it said the online encyclopedia refused to remove two English-language pages which cited...

Turkey Slams Proposed French Changes to Quran

By Uzay Bulut- Gatestone Institute - "We must revolutionize our religion," — Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, December, 2014. "A Muslim is to hate what Allah...

The Forgotten Genocide: Why It Matters Today

By Raymond Ibrahim - Today, April 24, marks the “Great Crime,” that is, the Armenian genocide that took place under Turkey’s Islamic Ottoman Empire, during...

Turkey Complains About ‘Islamophobia’ in Europe, Persecutes Its Own Christian Community

By Uzay Bulut - Christian Post -Today, approximately 215 million Christians experience persecution, meaning that one in twelve Christians live where Christianity is "illegal,...

Yazidis Face Forced Conversion to Islam Amid Fresh Persecution in Afrin

By By Patrick Cockburn - The Independent - The Yazidis, who were recently the target of massacre, rape and sex slavery by Isis, are now...