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  • Turkey Uncensored: Was Turkey’s War on Christmas a War on Christians?

    03/30/2017 12:40:52 PM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 12 replies
    Philos Project ^ | March 30, 2017 | Uzay Bulut
    Turkey’s Association of Protestant Churches recently issued its 2016 Human Rights Violations Report, which describes in detail the problems the Protestant community experienced in Turkey last year.According to that report, Turkey’s Protestant Christians – like in previous years – did not have the right or freedom to own their own places of worship, to share their faith, to train religious leaders, or to be exempt from the Islamic “religious culture and moral knowledge classes” in schools.Moreover, the Protestant community in Turkey is not even officially recognized as a “legal entity” by the government. The association’s report said that “The legal...
  • A New Holiday Hit In Muslim Turkey: Here Comes Santa

    12/24/2003 7:10:01 AM PST · by presidio9 · 30 replies · 175+ views
    THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ^ | Wednesday, December 24, 2003 | HUGH POPE
    <p>ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Santa Claus is coming to town -- in an unlikely country.</p> <p>Many cities across Turkey, home to 70 million Muslims, are erecting sparkling displays of lights on their main boulevards. Decorated trees glitter everywhere. Statues of the jolly old man grace the entrances of major stores. Most know Santa by the local moniker, Noel Baba, or literally, Father Christmas.</p>