I am reminded of a Pentecostal church that started quite close to a suburban neighbohood and promptly grew by leaps and bounds in a few years.
By the time of their third expansion, the congregation numbered well over a thousand and every Sunday and Wednesday night was a parking nightmare for the poor lost souls who lived close by. Polite requests by the neighbors for some consideration as far as parking was concerned were returned with near manic exhortations to get saved and rebukes of the Evil One and his sinister minions.
Some kind of zoning laws concerning places of worship are obviously appropriate. I would certainly raise this issue up should any new church be built in my neighborhood.
And your need to absolve the Turkish state has you comparing their persecution of Christian groups with our zoning laws? Oh well. Let me know if the Turkish Lobby comes up with a better explanation. The old catch all mantra of "Turkey being a good ally of America and Israel so don't pay too close attention to what we do to our minorities, especially Christians" wears thin these days after 9/11 (even with an Iraqi war looming).