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Christians in Turkey targeted by ErdoÄŸan-linked magazine, church attacked
Publication Date: 13/5/2020
Source: Ahval News
Christians in Turkey are being targeted with hate speech by a publication connected to a company with close ties to President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, Persecution.org said.
The magazine Gerçek Hayat has targeted religious leaders including the Greek Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Turkey’s Chief Rabbi and the former Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, accusing them of masterminding a failed military coup in 2016 or of connections to the banned Islamic Fethullah Gülen movement, also known as FETÖ, the website said on Tuesday.
In northeastern Syria, Christians are caught between war planes and COVID-19
Author: Maria Lozano
Publication Date: 22/4/2020
Source: Church in Need
BEFORE THE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR, more than 20,000 Christian families lived in the Al-Jazeera region, on the border with Turkey in northeastern Syria. Many of these Christians are the descendants of those who fled the genocide of the Armenians in 1915 in Turkey or Kurdish attacks in the neighboring Iraqi area of Duhok in 1933. Today, only an estimated between 7000 and 8000 families remain. An unknown number of Christians have left in the wake of Turkey’s October 2019 invasion of the region.
