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CHRISTIANS PERSECUTED IN TURKEY?

[+] serious ballot by EUROTOPIA
ACTIVE Nov 30,2007 - Sat Nov 29, 08

"A priest from Turkey's Syriac Christian community has been kidnapped in the country's south-east, officials say.
Edip Daniel Savci's car was reportedly found abandoned near Midyat town in Mardin province on Wednesday.

A local clergyman had received a phone call demanding a ransom for his release, the Anatolia news agency said.

Attacks on Turkey's Christian minority have increased recently. A Catholic priest was shot dead last year and three Protestants were killed in April.

Five men accused of the attack on the Protestant missionaries went on trial in the town of Malatya last week.

Turkish police are working to secure the release of the missing priest, security officials said.

Turkey's Syriac Christian community numbers an estimated 25,000 people and is based mainly in Mardin, in the largely Kurdish south-east, and in Istanbul.

Syriac Christians are one of the faith's oldest denominations and are found in modern Iraq, Syria and Lebanon."

(Source: BBC)

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- Are Turkey's 'modernity' and 'tolerance' of relgious diversity exaggerated?

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COMMENTS:
Voted : Yes
Yes, definitely. The problem is that EU observers and such go to Istanbul and Ankara and such places and are amazed how modern it is there.

But the more one travels east in Turkey, the more human rights abuses that can be observed. Turkey's east and west are very different in my opinion.

by EUROTOPIA on Fri Nov 30, 07 6:28am [+]

Photo of the group:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44206000/jpg/_44206171_gulabi203.jpg

by EUROTOPIA on Fri Nov 30, 07 6:30am [+]

^ LoL, ignore that. That was supposed to have been for an earlier ballot of mine. The Indian female vigilante group ballot topic, and not this one on Turkey at all.

by EUROTOPIA on Fri Nov 30, 07 6:31am [+]

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