Turkish Document Leak Reveals Campaign Against Christians

October 2, 2019 — 10/02/2019 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – Confidential documents obtained by the Nordic Monitor, an NGO which monitors radical extremist trends, show that Turkey’s National Security Council (MEK) had created a...

Turkey Meddles in Armenian Patriarch Election – Again

September 27, 2019 — Turkey Restricts Candidates Eligible for Spiritual Leadership Position 09/27/19 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on September 23, 2019, Turkey’s Ministry of Interior issued...

School Starts in Turkey, Genocide Implications Linger

September 22, 2019 — 09/22/2019 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – As the Turkish school year starts, a new media report indicates that there are less than 300 Greek students attending the 7 remaining orthodox...

A Church Held Hostage

September 22, 2019 —

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09/22/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Turkey’s Christian Armenian population was almost wiped out during the...

Turkey Expels Another Foreign Christian

September 21, 2019 — 09/21/2019 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – Turkey has again expelled a foreign Christian from the country, bringing the number of expelled foreign Christians within the last year to 24. Hans-Jurgen...

Hooded Man Threatens Turkish Antalya Churches

September 19, 2019 — 09/19/2019 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – Yesterday, a hooded man approached the Church of St. Paul in Antalya during a meeting where representatives of three churches were gathered. The man...

Turkish Hate Speech Singles Out Minorities

September 16, 2019 — 09/16/2019 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – A new study conducted by the Hrant Dink Foundation regarding hate speech in the Turkish media during the year 2018 shows that Jews and...

Cross Symbols Destroyed in Trabzon

September 12, 2019 — 09/12/2019 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – A local municipality in Trabzon (northern Turkey) has ruled that architectural elements of houses which resemble crosses will not be tolerated, according to local...

Iranian Christian Family Faces Deportation from Turkey

September 6, 2019 — 09/06/2019 Iran (International Christian Concern) – Over the past few days, as cogs slowly turn in the machines of Turkey’s government, an order for the deportation a Persian pastor and...

Turkey Fails to Hold Religious Freedom Abusers Accountable

September 2, 2019 — 09/02/2019 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – A new report was published by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee which evaluates religious freedom in Turkey during the first quarter of 2019. The report...

Turkish Court Rejects Dink Appeal

August 30, 2019 — 08/30/2019 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – Turkey’s constitutional court has rejected an appeal by Hrant Dink’s family that an effective investigation into Dink’s murder has not been pursued. The court...

A Slow Strangulation: Turkey’s Disappearing Christian Leadership

August 15, 2019 —

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08/15/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – A melody is slowly quieting in Turkey. For centuries,...

Turkey Issues Veiled Threat Towards Greek Christians

August 15, 2019 — 08/15/2019 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – The Daily Sabah, a Turkish government run news agency, has run yet another article inciting hatred and opposition towards Christians. The article categorizes Greek...

Armenian Church Requests Election Dates

August 11, 2019 — 08/11/2019 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – The Armenian apostolic church in Turkey has officially requested permission from Turkey to hold a patriarchal election on December 11. This would follow the...

Vandals Target Church in Turkey

August 9, 2019 — 08/09/2019 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – St. Theodoros Trion Church in central Turkey was targeted yet again by vandals. The church is Greek Orthodox. The vandals sprayed hate speech across...

Turkey’s Fires: Arson or Negligence?

July 31, 2019 — 07/31/2019 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – An investigation into the cause of multiple fires that recently threatened Christian villages in Turkey is ongoing. Initial reports indicated that six Christian villages...