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After 12 years, Turkey closes the door on American church volunteer

July 29, 2013 Turkey Diyarbakir, Jerry Mattix, Protestants, Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Jerry Mattix makes a presentation on Luke in an undated photoSpecial to World Watch Monitor After 12 years serving a church in Turkey voluntarily and peacefully, Jerry Mattix suddenly is on the country’s blacklist. Officially, the government has deemed Mattix a threat to national security. Yet the police have . . . Read More

Turkey ‘defined by inflexible religiosity’

June 17, 2013 Turkey Islamic extremism, Middle East, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey

Calling Turkey a home to the “last secularists in the Middle East”, Turkish opposition party MP Şafak Pavey has condemned Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government for failing to reconcile Islam, secularism and democracy because of a government “defined by inflexible religiosity”. (The Guardian)

Church head in unprecedented meeting with Turkish MPs

February 27, 2012 Turkey Ankara, Greek Orthodox, Halki Seminary, Patriarch Bartholomew I, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey

In an unprecedented meeting, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Turkey last week expressed his concerns and hopes for the country’s Christian minority to members of the Turkish Parliament. The visit took place in Ankara after Speaker of the Parliament Cemil Cicek invited Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I to . . . Read More

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