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St. John the Evangelist's Anglican Church in İzmir, is a key church for the ethnic Christian Turkish community. There is an ethnic Turkish Protestant Christian community in Turkey numbering around ~10,000, [175] [176] mostly adherents, and most of them coming from a Muslim Turkish background.
Moreover, there is an ethnic Turkish Protestant Christian community in Turkey which number about 7,000–8,000 adherents; [41] [40] most of these Christian converts are from Turkish–Muslim background. [103] [104] [105] In 2003, the mainstream Turkish newspaper Milliyet reported that 35,000 Turkish former Muslims had converted to Christianity ...
People of Turkish nationality who are of the Christian faith. Subcategories. ... Turkish Christian missionaries (1 C) O. Turkish Oriental Orthodox Christians ...
In the modern Turkish language as used in the Republic of Turkey, a distinction is made between "Turks" and the "Turkic peoples" in loosely speaking: the term Türk corresponds specifically to the "Turkish-speaking" people (in this context, "Turkish-speaking" is considered the same as "Turkic-speaking"), while the term Türki refers generally ...
Turkish drone strikes in northeastern Syria on Wednesday killed at least three members of a local Christian force and wounded others, including civilians, a Kurdish official and a Syrian ...
View of the Phanarion quarter, the historical centre of the Greek community of Constantinople in Ottoman times, ca. 1900.. The Ecumenical Patriarch was recognized as the highest religious and political leader (millet-bashi, or ethnarch) of all Orthodox Christian subjects of the Sultan, though in certain periods some major powers, such as Russia (under the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca of 1774 ...
Turkish people or Turks (Turkish: Türkler) are the largest Turkic people who speak various dialects of the Turkish language and form a majority in Turkey and Northern Cyprus. In addition, centuries-old ethnic Turkish communities still live across other former territories of the Ottoman Empire .
In the 2000s, there are around 25,000 Roman Catholics, [1] constituting 0.05% of the population. The faithful follow the Latin, Byzantine, Armenian and Chaldean Rites.Most Latin Church Catholics are Levantines of mainly Italian or French background, with a few are ethnic Turks, who are usually either converts via marriage to Levantines or other non-Turkish Catholics, or are returnees from ...