05/18/2008
Suspects in Turkish attack accuse each other
All five suspects who are on trial in Turkey for the deaths of three Christian martyrs allegedly slain in a vicious attack by Muslims who had agreed to meet them at a Bible publishing house have denied responsibility, instead pointing fingers at each other
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05/15/2008
Queen wears headscarf and slippers for visit to Turkish mosque
Her head respectfully covered and slipper-style socks on her feet, the Queen listened intently to a reading from the Koran during a visit to Turkish mosque on Wednesday. The monarch, who's currently on a four-day visit to
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02/24/2008
Acid Attack On Two Turkish Girls For Wearing Short Skirts
A high school senior and an elementary school student were attacked in the Mediterranean town of Mersin with strong acid spray. In two separate incidents within the same hour both girls
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02/17/2008
Turkish PM seeks to smooth secularists’ worries
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan tried to smooth worries about secularism after the law lifting the ban on headscarf in universities and repeated his criticism against the media on Sunday.
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01/24/2008
FAITH UNDER FIRE Hearings begin in slaughter of 3 Christians
Details about the martyrdom of three Christians at a Bible publishing house in Turkey last year are beginning to emerge as suspects testify in hearings, according to a report from Compass Direct News.
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01/08/2008
Turkish Police "Prevented" Pastor Assassination (UPDATE)
(ADDS NEWS OF BOMB BLAST IN 3RD PARAGRAPH) ISTANBUL, TURKEY (BosNewsLife)-- Turkish police have apparently prevented an attempt to assassinate the pastor of an evangelical church in the Mediterranean resort of
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12/18/2007
Another Attack on a Priest
In the last two years, there have been three murder cases of Christians in Turkey. Now a priest in Izmir has been wounded by a young man.
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11/24/2007
Turks in Christian murder trial
The trial has started in eastern Turkey of five men accused of killing three Christians earlier this year
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11/17/2007
Halki’s Chapel of the Transfiguration left in ruins
Forest guards began demolition work on the chapel without warning, Only the immediate protest of the prior of Haliki and Metropolitan Meliton avoided its total destruction. A Church in Kadikoy, ancient Calcedonia is also targeted by vandals.
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09/29/2007
TURKEY: ALLEGED INSTIGATORS NAMED IN MALATYA MURDERS
Christians called to fast, pray ahead of trial; European parliamentarians demand justice
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04/25/2007
Christian Converts Live In Fear in Intolerant Turkey
(spiegel.de) Turkish converts to Christianity fear for their lives after the brutal murder of three people...
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04/22/2007
Turks Slit Bible Publishers' Throats & Other Muslim Macabre
Turkey prides itself in being a secular country, not bowing down to barbaric type atrodicites in other Muslim countries. That is one appeal Turkey has in its hopes for membership in the European Union. However, to date the EU has not permitted such membership. Good.
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02/09/2007
Descendant of Muhammad converts to Christianity -- but faces threat to life if forced to return to Turkey
No Compulsion In Religion Alert. By Wolfgang Polzer for the ASSIST News Service, with thanks to all who sent this in:
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12/13/2006
Papal Visit Boosts Turkey's Beleaguered Catholics
CWNews.com –ISTANBUL (Compass Direct News) – In a year that saw eight violent attacks on Christians in Turkey and widespread uproar over a papal speech deemed derogatory to Islam, many Turkish Catholics worried that Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to their
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11/30/2006
Pope turns other cheek to Muslim Turkey
THE Pope has reversed his opposition to Turkey's efforts to join the EU, appearing to back the overwhelmingly Muslim country's hard-fought push towards membership at the start of his visit.
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11/24/2006
Turkish converts to Christianity stand trial for insulting 'Turkishness'
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Two Turkish men who converted to Christianity went on trial Thursday for allegedly insulting "Turkishness," and of inciting religious hatred against Islam
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11/03/2006
Turkey: Converts Charged Under Speech Law
CWNews.com – ISTANBUL, October 31 (Compass Direct News) – A Turkish prosecutor slapped criminal charges against two converts to Christianity earlier this month, accusing them of
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07/04/2006
Priest Stabbed in Turkey - 3rd Such Attack
ANKARA, Turkey — A man stabbed a Roman Catholic priest Sunday in the Black Sea port of Samsun, a church official said, in the third attack against a Catholic cleric in Turkey in recent months
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03/29/2006
Dogs Sexually Abused by Islamists...
Pro-islamic municipalities in Turkey are killing stray dogs, animal rights groups claim.
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02/06/2006
Catholic Priest Shot, Killed at Church in Turkey
ANKARA, Turkey — A teenage boy shot and killed the Italian Roman Catholic priest of a church in the Black Sea port city of Trabzon on Sunday, shouting "God is great" as he escaped, according to police and witnesses
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