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Are Muslim radio stations allowed? Is this because of what was said on the air, or the law does not allow any religion on the air?

of course the muslims are allowed to broadcast on radio. Of course this is special treatment just for some christians. The article mentioned the armenian orthodox church which is christian. I'm sure this rule won't apply to them either. But you see armenian orthodox church will behave differently. They won't read from bible on the radio. They won't evangelize as these protestants do. It is the style of christianity that is so strongly disliked in many countries.

In greece they've outlawed the methodist church. In many european countries they've outlawed some individual christian denominations. If you talk to others about christianity, then you are on very shaky ground in many countries.

In China/Vietnam they don't allow bibles, you get caught with one and you go to jail. In Russia some christian groups are outlawed.

A few years ago in Indonesia they had large disturbances where many christians were systematically killed, homes burned, etc. right in jakarta the capital. Authorities allowed it to happen. Many christians have been killed in many countries also just in the last few years. They're killed for being christian.

From what I understand the bleak economic picture in Turkey lately has emboldened Christian missionaries, who have had some some success in converting a few in exchange for a few pounds of butter, similar to the conversions which led to the Catholic Armenians and Lebanese (vs. Orthodox) in that area.

Such conversions lead to social unrest, mostly only domestically, but also on a communal level. We do not allow agressive tactics by Iran or Saudi Arabia (getting our population to wear the burka or grow beards for $50 per month), neither will we allow it by a "Protestant Christian" pastor who really has no congregation.

We would like to avoid intercommunal strife, so if cutting one throat saves many others, then so be it.

Religious programs are allowed on the airwaves, so long as they are not threatening to the overall peace.

The events that took place in 1955 against the Greek population were civil retribution against the massacre of Turkish civilians on Cyprus at that time. Others had left right after the Turkish War of Independence which followed WW1 in population exchanges of Greeks for Turks, which were part of a treaty.

Pay no attention to this Destro and Eleni121, who are hell bent on turning American popular opinion against Turkey.

Turkey is an ally of the USA, the pilots of which flew security missions over US soil following 9/11. Turkey has a long histor of religious tolerance (just ask the Jews), but will not tolerate the politicization of religion. If some subversives were Christians, then our actions against them cannot be seen as anti-Christian, just as our actions against those who were Muslim cannot be seen as anti-Muslim -- and there have been many.

There are pleny of Chruches in communities where Christian congregations actually exist. My mother is Christian, so I know that to be a fact. And I went to a Catholic high school in Istanbul, which is right next to a Catholic hospital. They've been there for over a century.

So to portray Turkey as anti-Christian is a ploy to get you to hate her, so that maybe one day the Greeks can benefit from your hate and realize their dream of a greater Greece.