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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 ...
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 ...
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The Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation found that only 9% of Turks supported a religious state in 2006. [183] A more recent 2015 poll by Metropoll found that over 80% of Turkish people supported the continuation of Turkey as a secular state, with even the majority of AKP voters supporting a secular state too. [186]
Many Greek Orthodox people living in Istanbul and the Islands were at various times arbitrarily stripped of their Turkish citizenship. Finally, a 1971 law significantly limiting the operation of private universities led to the closure of the Halki Seminary, the main theological school of the Orthodox community. Despite a 40-year campaign to ...
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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 ...