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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.
People of Turkish nationality who are of the Christian faith. Subcategories. ... Turkish Christian missionaries (1 C) O. Turkish Oriental Orthodox Christians (10 P) P.
The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages. [37] [38]According to historians and linguists, the Proto-Turkic language originated in Central-East Asia, [39] potentially in Altai-Sayan region, Mongolia or Tuva.
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 ...
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 ...
Other Turkish groups include the Rumelian Turks (also referred to as Balkan Turks) historically located in the Balkans; [82] [111] Turkish Cypriots on the island of Cyprus, Meskhetian Turks originally based in Meskheti, Georgia; [112] and ethnic Turkish people across the Middle East, [82] where they are also called Turkmen or Turkoman in the ...
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 ...
A ḥilya by Hâfiz Osman (1642–1698), who established the standard layout used for this type of calligraphic panel. The term ḥilya (Arabic: حلية, plural: ḥilān, or ḥulān; Turkish: hilye, plural: hilyeler) denotes both a visual form in Ottoman art and a religious genre of Ottoman-Arabic literature each dealing with the physical description of Muhammad.