Tag:Turkey

Yazidi Massacre in Afrin: Children Killed, Villages Bombed, Temples Destroyed

By Uzay Bulut - Christian Post (via AINA) ـYazidis, a historically persecuted non-Muslim people in the Middle East, are yet again fleeing for their...

Turkey Confiscating Christian Property, Prohibiting Christians From Worshiping

By LibertyNews (via AINA) -The government of Turkey is now confiscating Christian property and prohibiting Christians worshipping in their churches, which have also been...

Tunisian Religious Reforms Challenge Egypt’s Al Azhar

By Hany Ghoraba - Special to IPT NewsTunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi marched straight into a battle with Egypt's highest Sunni authority, Al-Azhar's mosque...

Christians in Turkish City of Diyarbikir Facing Mass Persecution

By The Alabama BaptistTurkey -- it sometimes slips out of view since it doesn't make the Secretary of State's "Countries of Particular Concern" list...

Decimated Muslim Brotherhood Still Inspires Fear. Its Members Wonder Why.

By Patrick Kingsley, The New York TimesFor Magdy Shalash, an Egyptian exile living here in Istanbul, Turkey, there is a certain irony to a...

What’s behind the Turkish “seizure” of Church properties?

By John Burger - Aleteia1600-year-old monastery at center of ongoing disputeTurkey’s appropriation of Syriac Church property represents a reversal from Ankara’s policies towards Christian...

Soft Sharia in Turkey

By Burak Bekdil - The Gatestone InstituteThe good news about Turkish justice is that despite 15 years of not-so-creeping Islamization, court verdicts do not...

Greeks, Assyrians and Armenians in Turkey on the Verge of Extinction

By Uzay Bulut - AINA -The current Greek population in Turkey is estimated at fewer than 2,000. But this population decline was not due...