The Turks are irked by Christians being… well, Christians. And they can’t have that in the Islamic Republic of Turkey, so the official position is that Christian schools “do not have a right to promote Christian values.” But for us to draw attention to this is “Islamophobic.” As an important historical side note, the once Christian region of modern-day Turkey now has less than 120,000 Christians out of a population of more than 75 million. In 1914, the non-Muslim population was 19%, but the Armenian, Assyrian and Pontian genocides literally slashed that to 2.5% by 1927. The Istanbul Pogroms of 1955 against the Orthodox Christians in the Phanar killed or drove out many thousands more. Turkey’s “secular” nature is only skin deep, as the past decade’s push to convert ancient churches into mosques, and stories like this one clearly demonstrate.
More on this story, via “Turkish Authorities are closing Christan schools because of their “Missionary Work,” Pravoslavie, June 11, 2015:
Turkish authorities are more and more frequently encroaching on Christian educational institutions on the territory of Turkey. In the officials’ view, such schools do not have a right to promote Christian values, reports the Linga news portal.
Christian charitable organizations in Turkey have for the fifth year now been assisting refugees from Syria, providing them with accommodation and work; the refugees’ children also can afford to continue their education in specialized schools. Among such schools until recently were volunteer educational institutions belonging to the Association of Churches of Jerusalem in the city of Gaziantep. At the beginning of the next academic year, they were ready to accept hundreds of children aged between 8 and 12.
But last week an imam of a local mosque, who saw teachers of one Christian school distributing copies of the Bible to its students and their parents, hastened to inform the media representatives about it.
Firas Dib, spokesman of the Referance newspaper, published the information on “distribution of Christian literature” in Gaziantep schools, personally meeting with the paper’s editor-in-chief and representative of the head of the country’s ruling party. The latter have taken into account “a fact of violation of Muslim children’s rights.” Later on the same day, the city administration received special directives; it at once sent police officers who conducted a search in four Christian schools in the city and sealed them.
It should be noted that the fate of the Christian students as well as schools of other Christian organizations still remains unknown.
Charli Main says
The lunatics running the asylum in Brussels are still pressing ahead with their plan to fully Islamise Europe by bringing Turkey into the European Union. When Europe´s eastern border is South Eastern Turkey, 1.5 billion Muslims will just be able to walk into the European Union and head West. Go West, Muslims, go West–After a 1400 year war, Rome is yours—-Allah Akbar !!!!!!
mortimer says
Leftarded cultural Marxists in Brussels look the other way as fanatical, racist Islam creeps back to Turkey. The noises about turning Saint Sophia into a mosque are symptoms of the underlying malaise.
Western leaders need to understand world stability depends on DEPROGRAMMING MUSLIMS. This will require large resources and courage. The job has to be done. Islam is more dangerous than Nazism and communism combined! Islam is a mass delusional.
Angemon says
They’re closing them when they could be torching them. See? “Moderate” Turkey!!!
John Doe says
“Turkish Authorities are closing Christian schools because of their “Missionary Work,”
AND IF YOU DARE TO SAY and MENTION THIS IS : “CHRISTIAN-PHOBIA” YOU ARE AN ISLAMOPHOB!!!
It’s only one way street. They are closing churches, schools in Turkey, in other rat holes countries Christians are being slaughtered, raped, burnt alive, and , in certain situations we can not even be afraid for our lives as we are immediately marked as islamophobs!!!! WTF!!!??? In the same time they are being offended when the Boston guy got shot for plotting to murder and his family and friends got out on the street to fight for justice?!!!??!?!?! THIS IS THE BEST DESCRIPTION AND DEFINITION OF THE WORD “INSANITY!!!!
Paul says
If people think that our politicians will ever do anything to help Christians
in the Middle East you’ll be waiting forever. It’s up to us, those who haven’t
been poisoned by politics and bought off with Saudi and Qatari money.
Here’s something you can do to help :
https://barnabasfund.org/appeals/Operation-Safe-Havens-Rescuing-Christians-in-Danger
DP111 says
Paul
I have supported Barnabus Fund since it was founded. Thank you for eliciting support for it.
I have no doubt that Muslims will be rescued from their fatal slavery to Muhammed. “Fatal slavery” as slavery to sin and Satan, whiuch leads to eternal death.
jayell says
And it’s OK for muslims to throw their weight around on Christian territory? Such deluded, bigotted arrogance!
Aton says
The tourist guide in Diyarbakir proudly boasts that there are twelve churches in the old city. What it neglects to say is that eleven of them have been burned down. One was rebuilt a few years back.
Likewise, 55% of the population of Diyarbakir were Christian in 1869. Now, there are only 40 Christians left, out of a population of 900,000.
Aton
Infidave says
This must be a different Turkey to the one Tony Abbott recently visited and stressed the point that he was alarmed at how peaceful, prosperous and pluralistic the country of Turkey was.