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Pages in category "Turkish religious leaders" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Yusuf Çetin; E.
St. George's Cathedral is the epicenter of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, home to the spiritual leader of 300 million Eastern Orthodox Christians worldwide. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported in 2014 that the Christian population of Turkey had declined from 20% to 0.2% since 1914. [89]
Category: Turkish Christian religious leaders. ... Turkish Christian clergy (3 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 27 March 2016, at 14:14 (UTC). ...
The Turkish leader accused Gülen’s followers of infiltrating the country’s police and judiciary and setting up a parallel state, and began agitating for Gülen’s extradition to Turkey even before the failed 2016 coup. The cleric had lived in the United States since 1999, when he came to seek medical treatment.
Prominent ethnic Turkish Christians include Paul Mulla, Antuan Ilgit and Julio Murat, these Turkish prelates of the Catholic Church; Nazlı Tolga, a journalist; [185] [186] Leyla Gencer, an operatic soprano; [187] Ziya Meral, a scientist and economist; Rabia Kazan, an author and activist; [188] Tunch Ilkin, a football player; [189] along with ...
The central Alevi communal worship service is called a Jem, [a] which is performed in special houses called as Cem Evi. Alevi Muslims believe that the Jem has its roots in an original worship and teaching meeting of forty spiritual individuals Kirklar Majlisi (Turkish: Kırklar Meclisi) led by Ali. It takes place in a Cem Evi
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]
The roots of the ATIB are found in Turkish immigration to Austria from the 1960s onwards. The goal of its foundation was to create a Turkish-nationalist movement of Islam and to prevent adherents from joining mosques run by the Millî Görüş. As a new religious law came into effect in 2015 in Austria, Islamic congregations and community ...