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Syriacs mark Easter in Turkey amid safety fears
Author: Ayla Jean Yackley
Publication Date: 19/4/2020
Source: Al-Monitor
MIDYAT, Turkey — The lone priest tending a remote monastery in southeastern Turkey gave uninvited visitors food and water when they darkened his door in 2018. The men were Kurdish militants, authorities said, and for his act of charity, Sefer Bilecen now faces charges of terrorism.
Erdoğan extends Easter wishes to Christians
Publication Date: 12/4/2020
Source: Hurriyet Daily News
Turkey’s president on April 12 released a message marking the Christian religious holiday of Easter.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan extended his best wishes to "all Christian citizens and the Christian community on the occasion of Easter."
Christians in Turkey targeted by Erdoğan-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 Erdoğan, 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.
Christians in the Middle East – Past, Present and Future
Author: Colin Chapman
Publisher/Publication: Transformation
Volume/Issue: 29(2)
DOI/ISBN: 10.1177/0265378812439955
Can We Speak of a "Coptic Question" in Egypt?
Author: Azmi Bishara
Publisher/Publication: Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies
DOI/ISBN: www.jstor.org/stable/resrep12648
Reckoning with the Inevitable: Death and Dying among Syrian Christians during the Uprising
Author: Andreas Bandak
Publisher/Publication: Ethnos
Volume/Issue: 80(5)
DOI/ISBN: 10.1080/00141844.2014.941896
Secular human rights: Challenge and opportunity to Christians and Muslims
Author: Heiner Bielefeldt
Publisher/Publication: Islam and Christian‐Muslim Relations
Volume/Issue: 7(3)
DOI/ISBN: 10.1080/09596419608721092
