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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Assyrians in Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Süryanileri, Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܝܐ ܕܛܘܪܩܝܐ) or Turkish Assyrians are an indigenous Semitic-speaking ethnic group and minority of Turkey who are Eastern Aramaic–speaking Christians, with most being members of the Syriac Orthodox Church, Chaldean Catholic Church, Assyrian Pentecostal Church, Assyrian Evangelical Church, or Ancient Church of the East.
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 ...